C. (Caroline) Figueroa PhD
C. (Caroline) Figueroa PhD
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Profiel
Dr. Figueroa focuses her research on developing and testing personalized digital health tools to help individuals lead healthier lives. She focuses on tailoring these tools to the needs of underserved populations, such as people from ethnic and gender minority backgrounds, low-income individuals, and those with severe mental illness. Among other projects, she studies mobile apps that use artificial intelligence to help individuals manage their mental health and increase their physical activity. She developed frameworks to conduct digital health research through a social justice and feminist intersectionality approach.
Academische achtergrond
Dr. Figueroa is a medical doctor by background, and combined her clinical internships for medicine with PhD research on the neuroscience of depression at the University of Amsterdam. She spent two years at the University of Oxford in the Department of Psychiatry. After her PhD Caroline joined the Digital Health Equity and Access lab at the University of California Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher. Before joining TU Delft, she worked as a clinical psychiatry resident and researcher at the University Medical Centre in Utrecht.
Expertise
Publicaties
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2024
Correction
The stories about racism and health: the development of a framework for racism narratives in medical literature using a computational grounded theory approach
Caroline A. Figueroa / Erin Manalo-Pedro / Swetha Pola / Sajia Darwish / Pratik Sachdeva / Christian Guerrero / Claudia von Vacano / Maithili Jha / Fernando De Maio / Chris J. Kennedy -
2024
The Relationship Between Barriers to Physical Activity and Depressive Symptoms in Community-Dwelling Women
Caroline A. Figueroa / Adrian Aguilera / Thomas J. Hoffmann / Yoshimi Fukuoka
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2023
A flexible micro-randomized trial design and sample size considerations
Jing Xu / Xiaoxi Yan / Caroline Figueroa / Joseph Jay Williams / Bibhas Chakraborty
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2023
Ratings and experiences in using a mobile application to increase physical activity among university students
implications for future design
Caroline A. Figueroa / Laura Gomez-Pathak / Imran Khan / Joseph Jay Williams / Courtney R. Lyles / Adrian Aguilera -
2023
The opportunities and challenges of women's digital health
A research agenda
Caroline A. Figueroa / Josephine Sundqvist / Sunjoy Mathieu / Nasim Farrokhnia / Diane Nevin / Sarah Wamala Andersson -
Media
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2022-08-08
Podcast Women's Health Research Institute
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2021-11-01
Podcast Spark on the Canadian CBC Radio 1
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2021-07-07
Op-Ed in the Dutch Parool
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2020-03-25
Op-Ed in the San Francisco Chronicle
Verscheen in: San Francisco Chronicle