Dr Clarence Baxter
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Biography
Dr Clarence Baxter PhD, MPH (Distinction), FACS, JP (Qual) has a passion for leveraging digital devices to realise population and individual health improvements. His research focuses on digital health and potentially prescribable mobile & wearable health apps for diagnosis and therapy. He is an Industry Research Fellow (Digital Health) at the QUT School of Public Health & Social Work (SPHSW).He is lead author in contemporary peer-reviewed international research publications in the fields of digital health, mHealth apps and the use of smartphone sensors in medicine. He has contributed more than 295 verified expert peer reviews of original research article manuscripts at the invitation of 46 international medical and scientific journals. Clarence is also an invited peer reviewer of selected investigator grant applications for Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) .
Clarence welcomes opportunities for collaboration with potential academic, healthcare and industry partners to conduct evidence-based basic research, clinical studies and to explore commercialisation opportunities in digital health, mHealth and uHealth disciplines.
There are a couple of billion good reasons to get in touch, reflecting the potential afforded to us by worldwide uptake and adoption of smartphones, wearable and other digital devices capable of delivering meaningful and enduring health improvements. To reach out, please use the email link supplied on this site.
Personal details
Positions
- Industry Research Fellow
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Keywords
Public Health, Digital Health, mHealth & uHealth, Biomedical Software Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, Gamification for Health, IT & informatics, Health Service Management
Research field
Biomedical engineering, Other biomedical and clinical sciences, Public health
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- Master of Public Health (Distinction) (Queensland University of Technology)
- Graduate Diploma in Clinical Biochemistry (Griffith University)
- Graduate Diploma in Public Health (Queensland University of Technology)
- Graduate Certificate in Health Science (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
- Fellow - Australian Computer Society (ACS)
- Member - Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH)
- Member - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Member - IEEE Engineering Medicine & Biology Society (IEEE EMBS)
- Member - HL7 Australia & HL7 International
- Member - Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA)
Experience
Clarence gained formative experience as a practicing clinical measurement scientist in public hospital inpatient, outpatient and remote site occupational health settings. He performed routine respiratory, cardiac, neurological and vascular testing in addition to contributing to development and performance of specialised clinical physiological testing procedures.
Subsequent to work in clinical settings, he pursued a rich and diverse career in large scale corporate & government information technology (IT) roles. Clarence gained valuable experience in analysis and programming, system test engineering, enterprise database administration, senior/executive IT project management and consultancy in the health, mining and resources, energy, finance and corporate services sectors.
Clarence completed doctoral studies at the QUT Faculty of Health, the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI) and the QUT Digital Media Research Centre. He was awarded his PhD for novel (basic and clinical) research in digital health, mHealth (i.e., mobile health) and biomedical software engineering.
In addition, Clarence has attained certificates in Data Science (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Design & Evaluation of Digital Health Interventions (Imperial College London) and Human Computer Interaction Design (The Design School - University of California San Diego).
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Clarence, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).