We are very happy to welcome Dr. des. Anja Bischof, who joins us at CDHI as our new Core Director for Digital Resilience Interventions. She will, for example, explore how GenAI-based spatial computing environments can be used to strengthen the resilience of individuals in public health (e.g., school children, university students) and healthcare settings (e.g. patient populations, medical doctors). To this end, Anja is also interested in contributing to innovative medical education that explores spatial computing environments for resilience training.

Anja recently submitted her Ph.D. thesis at the University of St. Gallen, where her research focused on mitigating low-value care through the adept utilization of patient-reported outcomes and enhancing patients’ health literacy. Throughout her Ph.D. journey, Anja engaged in impactful projects that explored the nexus of measuring patients’ well-being, identifying influential factors, and formulating strategies to foster effective communication between patients and physicians, all while prioritizing the patients’ self-perceived health status. She completed both her M.A. and B.A. degrees at the University of St. Gallen.