Digital determinants of health: Editorial

Hamish S Fraser¹, Alvin Marcelo², Mahima Kalla³, Khumbo Kalua⁴, Leo A Celi^{5

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Affiliations

¹ Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America.
² Medical Informatics Unit, University of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines.
³ Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Blantyre Institute for Community Outreach and the College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi.
⁵ Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁶ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁷ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Editorial

Hamish S Fraser et al. PLOS Digit Health. 2023.

. 2023 Nov 28;2(11):e0000373.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000373. eCollection 2023 Nov.

Hamish S Fraser¹, Alvin Marcelo², Mahima Kalla³, Khumbo Kalua⁴, Leo A Celi^{5

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7}, Jennifer Ziegler⁸

¹ Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America.
² Medical Informatics Unit, University of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines.
³ Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Blantyre Institute for Community Outreach and the College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi.
⁵ Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁶ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁷ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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