Dominika Kwasnicka

Dominika Kwasnicka, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow in Digital Health at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, at the University of Melbourne, funded by the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) in Digital Technology to Transform Chronic Disease Outcomes, Australia. She is also a Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Psychology, at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw, funded by the Foundation for Polish Science, Poland.

She is a behavioural scientist who has diverse interests in health psychology, digital health and research methods focusing on individuals. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine and Master of Science in Public Health and Health Services Research at Newcastle University, England. She trained in Scotland and England, then she worked on digital health projects at Curtin University and Central Queensland University, in Australia as well as collaborated broadly with European colleagues in the UK, Poland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Finland. 

She leads Open Digital Health initiative that promotes reusing open digital health solutions across contexts and settings www.opendigitalhealth.org. She is also passionate about science translation and dissemination and is a leader of the Practical Health Psychology blog currently translated to 28 languages: www.practicalhealthpsychology.com.