Holly Witteman portrait

Holly Witteman holds the Canada Research Chair (tier 2) in Human-Centred Digital Health. She is an Associate Professor and Researcher at the Office for Education and Continuing Professional Development in the Department of Family and Emergency Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine. Trained as a human factors engineer, she applies her expertise in design methods to develop and evaluate digital health tools that help clinicians and patients understand scientific evidence and make evidence-informed decisions that align with what matters to the people affected by the decisions.

Her research interests include:

  • digital health
  • user/human-centred design
  • health education, communication, and decision making
  • inclusion in research
  • knowledge translation