EpiCH Seminar – mHealth: mHope or mHype?

Presented by Julian Wolfson, Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota.

Mobile health technology (or mHealth, as the cool kids say) is rapidly being adopted for both data collection and intervention delivery in health studies. However, as with many new technologies, claims that it will revolutionize medical research are premature. In this talk, I will discuss (with examples from ongoing research at UMN) why so many people are excited about the potential of mHealth to reveal new links between human behavior to health and well-being and create effective and durable behavioral interventions. But I will also talk about the substantial study design, implementation, and analysis challenges that must be overcome for mHealth-driven research to reach its promised potential.

This event is co-sponsored by the Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota.

Recorded Friday, May 6, 2022
10:00 am - 11:00 am CDT