Johanna Alvarez

Johanna is a PhD student at University of Brighton. She is a health psychologist who has experience in delivering psychological support, behaviour change in areas of psych-oncology, palliative care, and intensive care unit. She has been interested in understanding psychology and behaviour behind the digital health. Currently, she is developing a unified framework using digital health frameworks and sustainability principles to evaluate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) used for behaviour change in primary care health promotion in the UK.  

Johanna holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Health psychology (Westminster university) and graduated in psychology (Santo Tomas University).  During her MSc degree she did a research about exploring the general public's attitudes towards sexual health chatbots in the UK. Additionally, She worked at Colsubsidio 127 Oncology clinic and SIMMON charity for cancer patients in Bogota-Colombia. She was health psychologist practitioner and volunteer at Barts Health NHS Trust, and enrolled as a volunteer at Macmillan cancer support in London. 

Areas of expertise include developing behaviour change strategies to improve health care and wellbeing. Psycho-oncology, end-of- life care, psychological approach - palliative care. Currently building her knowledge in digital health and sustainability. 

• Digital health technology (evaluation, development of tools)
• Behaviour chage through technology 
• Health promotion 
• Sustainable digital health technology