Antoni Baena Garcia
Professor/a Lector/a Health Sciences Department
The use of technology in health is being one of the most important points to be implemented in the health system with a view to better functioning and, above all, with a view to more easily incorporating the population into the management of their own health by making more accessible in health care centers and their professionals.
Expert in::
- new technology adoption
- clinical trials
- digital divide
- co-creation
- digital training, digital literacy
- ICT Information and Communication Technologies
- health promotion
- competences
- eHealth
- public health
- mental health
- Research group
- eHealth Lab
- Area
- Health sciences
- Area of specialization
- Digital health, Network society, Education and ICT, Internet technologies and artificial intelligence,
- Membership Center
- Faculties
- UNESCO codes:
- 110501, 6106, 610301, 611305, 611404, 120304, 630707
- Collaborates with
- e-Health Center
ODS:
Antoni Baena has a PhD in Psychological Research from Ramon Llull University, Barcelona (2015). He is the director of the Master's Degree in E-Health and a member of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He specializes in the treatment and control of smoking, with more than 20 years' experience in the field, pioneering the use of ICT in addressing smoking in Spain with the Catalan Institute of Oncology's (ICO) Tobacco Control Unit, a WHO Collaborating Centre, at which he was a project director and trainer of healthcare professionals. He is the coordinator of the Expert Committee on ICT of the Official College of Psychology of Catalonia (COPC) and the representative of the Council of Professional Colleges of Psychology of Spain (COP) on the eHealth Taskforce of the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations (EFPA). His main interests are eHealth, the deontological ethics of the use of ICT in health, digital literacy, patient empowerment, co-creation and online healthcare processes, as well as other aspects of public health. He is the co-author of more than 30 articles published or accepted by peer-reviewed journals and of more than 25 courses and seminars for healthcare professionals, focusing on improving the provision of healthcare. He has also participated in numerous national and international conferences.
- Lecturer Lector-AQU (2018)
- Teaching Section (2022)
- National Accreditation of Psychologist Expert in Social Intervention - General Council of Psychology of Spain (COP) (2022)