About the Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Adam Dunn, PhD
University of Sydney
NSW, Australia
Adam Dunn (PhD, 2007) is Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. He has nearly two decades of academic experience in medical informatics and digital health, with a unique skill set for transdisciplinary research across computer science, data science, clinical epidemiology, public health, and computational social science. His main research interest is in applications of artificial intelligence in health, including public health applications of AI using novel sources of data from the community and the online information they engage with.
Associate Editors
Amalie Dyda, PhD
School of Public Health, University of Queensland
Queensland, Australia
Dr Amalie Dyda is a Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Digital Public Health at the University of Queensland. Her research focuses on the application of digital tools to improve infectious disease surveillance, vaccine uptake, and outbreak response. With a background in both public health practice and research, she leads interdisciplinary projects that bridge data science and epidemiology.
Felix Holl, PhD
Leibniz Science Campus Digital Public Health Bremen, Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences
Ulm, Germany
Felix Holl is a postdoctoral fellow at the DigiHealth Institute at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences. He graduated from the University of Munich with a doctorate degree in medical informatics in 2023. He has a background in medical informatics and obtained graduate training in global health as a Fulbright scholar at University of California, San Francisco and obtained postgraduate training in Public Health from UMIT in Austria. His research focuses on the evaluation of medical informatics projects and the use of informatics in international disasters and in global health.
Shen (Lamson) Lin, PhD
Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR, China
Dr. Shen (Lamson) Lin is an Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong's Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Trained as a gerontologist and social epidemiologist in the area of healthy ageing. Lamson obtained his PhD degree from the University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work . His research aims to advance healthy ageing via statistical and machine learning techniques to examine how social and structural determinants (e.g., race/ethnicity, migration, disadvantaged socioeconomic status/poverty) influence disparities in health care access/utilization (e.g., mental health consultations, unmet care needs, long-term care services) and health equity (e.g., multimorbidity, chronic illness, functional disability, depression) among older adults.
Maimuna (Maia) Majumder, PhD, MPH
Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Dr. Maimuna (Maia) Majumder (she/they) is an Assistant Professor and Inaugural Peter Szolovits Distinguished Scholar in the Computational Health Informatics Program at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital. Maimuna's research applies artificial intelligence & machine learning methods to public health problems, with a focus on infectious disease surveillance using search query, mobile phone, and news & social media data. Since January 2020, Maia and their team have actively responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Advisory Editors
Vu-Thuy Nguyen, PhD
Springer Nature
USA
Thuy joined Nature Communications in August 2024. She obtained a PhD in epidemiology from The University of Iowa College of Public Health. Her research area included infectious disease epidemiology with a focus in estimating the proportion of undiagnosed people living with HIV and the geographical distribution of people who were diagnosed with late stage HIV. Thuy handles manuscripts in the genomic and molecular epidemiology of pathogens and is based in the New York office.
Catherine Smith, PhD
Springer Nature
UK
Catherine joined Nature Communications in March 2020. After completing an MSc at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Catherine worked as an epidemiologist at Public Health England. She then moved to the UCL Institute of Health Informatics where she completed her PhD followed by postdoctoral work. Her research involved the use of electronic health records and novel technologies to improve control of infectious diseases, focusing mainly on the areas of tuberculosis and antibiotic stewardship. Catherine handles manuscripts in infectious disease epidemiology and public health, and she is based at the London office.
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