Department: Health Sciences Department

Unit: Digital health, health, well-being

Research group: epi4health Research Group in Epidemiology and Public Health in the Digital Health context

Was part of these groups:

Email: fsaigi@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with the thesis La documentación fotográfica en México orígenes, evaluación y organización de los fondos 2009. Supervised by Dr. Agustín Gutiérrez Chiñas, Dr. Félix del Valle Gastaminza.

Doctor by the Universitat de Barcelona with the thesis Aislamiento y caracterizacion genetica de los genes implicados en la biosintesis de antigeno 04 de serratia marcescens n28b 1999. Supervised by Dr. Miguel Regué Queralt.

Francesc Saigí is an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona, Spain. He is currently Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for eHealth at the same faculty (https://www.uoc.edu/portal/ca/ehealth-center/ehc-mon/centre-colaborador -oms/index.html). His main research interests include the definition, implementation and evaluation of new digital health services, in particular, telemedicine and eHealth; and the use of eHealth and ICT to promote changes in health-related behaviour, improve population health and prevent chronic diseases. In parallel, since he began his professional life at the UOC, he has been dedicated to innovating in digital health training and the use of social networks for the exchange of knowledge in health. He has participated in 15 R&D projects. He is also the co-author of more than 40 articles that have either been published or accepted in peer-reviewed journals, 37 of which are JCR-indexed; more than a dozen in non-indexed journals, mainly related to e-health; and more than 30 publications in academic and research books. He is founder and scientific advisor of CICUT (Clúster Iberoamericano de Colaboración Universitaria en Telemedicina) (http://cicut.net) and principal investigator of the CYTED - RITMOS network (Red Iberoamericana de Tecnologías Móviles en Salud, RITMOS, ref. 515RT0498 ) (https://sites.google.com/a/uoc.edu/ritmos/). ORCID code: 0000-0001-9616-1551.   ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesc_Saigi-Rubio.