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Dr Annie Lau

Research Fellow, Centre for Health Informatics

Dr Annie Lau is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Informatics (CHI), Australian Institute of Health Innovation, University of New South Wales, where she leads CHI’s research program in Consumer Health Informatics.

The aim of this program is to provide empirical evidence on how E-Health and online social technologies affect the way consumers make health decisions, manage their health, and influence their health behaviours and outcomes.

She has qualifications in Health Informatics (PhD UNSW) and Software Engineering (BE Hons I UNSW). Her research interests lie in the design, development, evaluation and analysis of E-Health systems for healthcare consumers and patients. She is also interested in investigating the impact of social media and online social influences on health.