- Location
- Zoom
- Series/Type
- Alumni Event, DLSPH Event, Faculty/Staff Event, Student Event
- Format
- Online
- Dates
- April 16, 2026 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Presented by the Centre for Global Health, the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, and the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Governance, Accountability and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector …
Title: Commercializing personal health information: Data brokers, digital health, and the pharmaceutical industry
Speaker: Dr. Sheryl Spithoff
Abstract: Digital technologies including electronic health records and virtual care have transformed the ways that patients access and navigate primary care. These digital technologies also allow their developers the unprecedented capacity to collect vast troves of personal health information. In this seminar, Dr. Sheryl Spithoff will discuss her ongoing research into the ways that digital health companies are collecting and commercializing data about patients, prescribers, and healthcare encounters. Characterized by complex, reciprocal relationships among clinicians, technology vendors, for-profit clinics, data aggregators, and the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Spithoff will describe emerging business models and practices within the digital health industry and what this means for patient privacy, clinical autonomy, and public health.
