Advancing Adolescent Girls’ Health Through Chatbot

Maria Ambrosio is a DPhil candidate and Teaching Fellow in Quantitative Research Methods at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention. Prior to starting my DPhil, she worked as a Public Health Specialist at the Georgia Department of Public Health, contributing to the state’s COVID-19 pandemic response in the United States.

Through her clinical practice in Russia, where she completed her medical training, and Angola, she was involved in community-based health education programs. These experiences sparked a deep interest in digital health interventions, particularly for their potential to scale low-cost interventions that advance population health. Her professional background centres on applying data-driven approaches to inform public health strategies and policies, with a focus on behaviour change interventions in areas such as nutrition, physical activity, smoking cessation, and parenting.