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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza

@drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social
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I'm a Flinders University’s Research Fellow dedicated to facilitating healthy living and improving public health services.

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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
💥 What if evaluating AI is the wrong unit of analysis? I argue that it’s time to make the human/AI system itself an object of evidence. Agree? Disagree? Challenge me. 👇 worldebhcday.org/blog/2026/ma... @jbiebhc.bsky.social #WorldEBHCDay #AI #HealthcareAI #EvidenceBasedHealthcare
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Making human/AI systems an object of evidence | World EBHC Day
Author: Dr Maria Alejandra Piñero de Plaza11. Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🌍 There is something genuinely uplifting about opening my weekly ResearchGate report and seeing our work out in the world, being read, recommended and cited by researchers everywhere. 🙌🧿🙏🎉🎊
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Telehealth offers a ‘lifeline’ but rules need changing, argue researchers - ANMJ
Telehealth is keeping Australians healthier and more connected, but outdated rules are putting it beyond reach for those who need it the most, argue Flinders University researchers. After skyrocketing...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🎉 A lovely milestone for our team! Our systematic review & meta-analysis on cardiac rehabilitation and medication adherence has now reached 20 citations. ❤️📚 Congratulations to all our co-authors and the CHAP team. Great to see our work continuing to inform the field! doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Grateful to be selected as an NTEUnion WAC Academic Staff Representative for South Australia. My commitment: listen, make the invisible visible, and turn voices into action. To SA women academics: I’m here to serve, and I want to hear from you. #NTEU #WAC #WomenInAcademia
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another milestone unlocked! 🎓✨ Now officially a Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA). Adding #HealthInformatics to the toolkit alongside #AI, #DataScience & #ImplementationScience 🚀 [My CHIA credential](www.credly.com/badges/77402...)
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Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA) was issued by Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) to Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza.
CHIA is an industry certification for health informatics and digital health. CHIAs have been assessed across six domains of expertise, they have the knowledge required to perform safely and effectivel...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A good week for research impact! 📈✨ 7 of our publications gained new citations. Always rewarding to see our work travelling and being used. 🌍 #ResearchImpact #HealthAI #DigitalHealth
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🌍 PROLIFERATE is travelling. This readership map shows our work reaching audiences across the world. A framework designed to understand people, context and behaviour when implementing innovation, digital health and AI in complex health systems. 📖 doi.org/10.3389/frhs...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
💭 In 2022, presenting PROLIFERATE at #DHIS2022 as a way to understand the impact and usability of AI-powered technologies. Now, it has grown into a broader program of implementation and AI evaluation research. doi.org/10.3389/frhs... #PROLIFERATE #DigitalHealth #AI #Research
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
💥 Where does research impact actually happen? 🔗 Often, in the connections between disciplines, people, services and ideas. 🧩 I’ve reorganised my Flinders University ResearchNow profile to make those connections more visible researchnow.flinders.edu.au/en/persons/m... #ResearchImpact
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
📚 Different studies. Different methods. One progression: turning the science of caring into evidence that can shape practice and public impact. #FHBP @flindersuniversity.bsky.social scholar.google.com/citations?hl...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
❤️ Better access. Better completion. Better cardiac care. Our Country Heart Attack Prevention (CHAP) work helped improve the cardiac rehabilitation model in South Australia. doi.org/10.1016/j.hl... #ResearchImpact #CardiacRehab #ImplementationScience #evaluation
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🔎 What do research collaboration and better patient care have in common? Human factors. 🤝 30 citations, 2024: what makes transdisciplinary collaboration work. 💙 50 reads, 2026: measuring caring from the patient perspective. doi.org/10.1177/1049... doi.org/10.1111/scs....
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What a room⚡14 innovators, 30 seconds each, one night full of ideas across health, tech, energy, research and entrepreneurship. Different disciplines. Different problems. Same ambition: real-world impact. Proud to be part of it. pinero-de-plaza-research.alejandra-pinero.chatgpt.site
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Research impact in action: our telehealth systematic review is now informing practical guidance for virtual programming and inclusion in Canada. Guide: adultsinmotion.org/kb/virtual-d... Review: doi.org/10.1155/hsc/... #ResearchImpact #Telehealth #FHBP
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Virtual & Online Day Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities in Ontario
If you’re supporting an adult with a developmental disability in Ontario, you may be wondering whether an online day program is a real option or just a leftover from the lockdown years. This guide wal...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Great night at the #SA #Innovation Ecosystem Mixer, reconnecting with my fellow across #StemSistersau, #CSIRO #ONPrime and @FlindersSTEM #NVI We help detect when AI/digital solutions stop working, for whom and why, before value is lost. pinero-de-plaza-research.alejandra-pinero.chatgpt.site
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.australiandementianetwork.org.au/view/emcr-di... #FHBP #Dementia #Evaluation #HealthServicesResearch
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EMCR Directory Listing & Researcher Profile (wp embed) - Australian Dementia Network
Official website of the Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT). Whether you are a researcher, a health professional, or a member of the public, our website provides you with relevent information on our w...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Knowledge Translation Program - Flinders University
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I developed the Fundamentals of Care Matrix by applying #SocialNetworkAnalysis, graph theory & complexity science to make relationships within care measurable, not just individual elements. Methodological innovation: doi.org/10.1111/jocn... Operationalisation: doi.org/10.3233/SHTI...
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Measuring fundamental care using complexity science: A descriptive case study of a methodological innovation
Aims and objectives This paper presents an exploratory account of an innovative methodology to record and evaluate fundamental care. Fundamental care is defined as the care required by everyone for ...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Health System Enablers and Barriers to Continuity of Care for First Nations Peoples Living with Chronic Disease | International Journal of Integrated Care%20https://ijic.org/articles/10.5334/ijic.7643
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Testing AI with AI: Ensuring effective AI implementation in clinical practice | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Testing AI with AI: Ensuring effective AI implementation in clinical practice
Using a pioneering artificial intelligence platform, Flinders University researchers have assessed whether a cardiac AI tool recently trialled in South Australian hospitals actually has the potential ...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
At #CSANZ26 today, I presented #PROLIFERATE_AI findings: understanding clinical AI matters, but is not enough. Discover what else matters. Abstract: doi.org/10.1016/j.hl... Study: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... Collaborate: pinero-de-plaza-research.alejandra-pinero.chatgpt.site #ANZET26
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just arrived in Sydney and excited to present my latest research at #CSANZ26. Looking forward to sharing how human-centred evaluation can help make clinical AI more trusted, usable and ready for real-world implementation. doi.org/10.1016/j.hl...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My research partnership website is live. I’m inviting partners to collaborate on evaluation, human-centred AI, digital health, healthy ageing and equity. Bring innovation. Let’s build evidence and grow its impact. pinero-de-plaza-research.alejandra-pinero.chatgpt.site
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Dr Maria Alejandra Piñero de Plaza | Research
Implementation science, digital health, human-centred AI and equitable health systems research by Dr Maria Alejandra Piñero de Plaza.
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Sydney this Friday and Saturday for #CSANZ26 and #ANZET26! ✈️ Excited to share how #PROLIFERATE_AI identifies the behavioural drivers of clinicians’ use of #RAPIDxAI in emergency care. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... #HumanCentredAI
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Research funding is difficult. Some NHMRC schemes fund fewer than 10% of applications. Behind these five projects, worth almost A$2.9M, are years of effort, trust, partnership and persistence. Funding opened the door; transdisciplinary teams turned it into impact.
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Honoured to receive the People's Choice Poster Award at the 2026 SA Cardiovascular Research Network Emerging Leaders Symposium. Shaping SA cardiac rehab through evidence, implementation & engagement. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42259718/%E2... #CardiacRehabilitation #Implementation @nhmrc.bsky.social
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Honoured to receive the #PeopleChoicePosterAward at the #SACVRN 2026 Emerging Leaders Symposium for our #CHAP project. This award belongs to the whole CHAP team, especially Dr Alline Beleigoli & Prof Robyn Clark. Read pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42259718/%E2... #CardioResearch #ImplementationScience
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Translating Research Through CSIRO’s ON Prime Program
Key points ON Prime helps researchers transition from lab to real-world impact by building customer discovery skills. Through the program, researchers
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Around 40 studies, many collaborators, and one shared goal: improving equitable, person-centred and sustainable healthcare. Explore my latest PubMed-indexed work: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=Pinero%... Always open to connecting and collaborating 🙏🇦🇺✅️
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Pinero de Plaza - Search Results - PubMed
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Healthcare without borders: How online consultations are bridging the accessibility gap
Telehealth has become a permanent part of modern medicine, with strong evidence supporting its use in mental health and chronic disease management. However, the popular narrative of “healthcare withou...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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New cardiac rehab model could save South Australia up to $10 million a year
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is strongly recommended after heart events and procedures, yet remains underused, with only 20%–50% of eligible patients participating—despite well-established recovery ben...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What does self-care really require when someone is living with several chronic conditions? Our new study looks beyond individual responsibility to the relationships, resources and health-system support that make self-care possible. doi.org/10.1111/jocn...
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Humanities & Social Sciences @hss.springernature.com · 06/07/2026
🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Why and How Health Research Must Escape Linear Thinking.' Linear systems can turn complexity into exclusion. Public health research needs methods that can see context, relationships, power and lived experience. 🔗 bit.ly/4vN62qu 🛟📊🩺 @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social
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Why and How Health Research Must Escape Linear Thinking
Linear systems can turn complexity into exclusion. Public health research needs methods that can see context, relationships, power and lived experience.
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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New cardiac rehab model could save South Australia up to $10 million a year
Stock photo: Getty Images. Flinders University research has helped shape South Australia’s new state-wide model of care for cardiac rehabilitation
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If public health is serious about equity, we need to stop pretending that complex lives fit linear pathways. Read the Springer Nature opinion here: go.nature.com/4eSHOE2 #HealthResearch #PublicHealth #HealthEquity #ImplementationScience #complexityscience #knowledgetranslation
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If public health is serious about equity, we need to stop pretending that complex lives fit linear pathways. Read the Springer Nature opinion here: go.nature.com/4eSHOE2 #HealthResearch #PublicHealth #HealthEquity #ImplementationScience #complexityscience #knowledgetranslation
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Why and How Health Research Must Escape Linear Thinking
Linear systems can turn complexity into exclusion. Public health research needs methods that can see context, relationships, power and lived experience.
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
CHAP Project results are in: 77.1% completion vs 57.5% usual care (p<0.001), equivalent clinical outcomes, lower cost & informing SA Government's new statewide cardiac rehab model. Research → policy in action. Podcast: speechify.app.link/BqUvVYCKi4b (doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2026.02.008)
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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New cardiac rehab model could save South Australia up to $10 million a year
Flinders University research has helped shape South Australia’s new state-wide model of care for cardiac rehabilitation, having demonstrated that a flexible, person-centred approach significantly impr...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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AI is now testing other AI health care tools | Medical Economics
Australian researchers are using an AI tool to assess an AI-powered cardiac diagnoses in emergency departments
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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AI keeps an eye on health AI
Using a pioneering artificial intelligence platform, Flinders University researchers have assessed whether a cardiac AI tool recently trialled in South Australian hospitals actually has the potential ...
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Chuffed to share our article "Care biography: A concept analysis" is a Wiley Top Cited Article 2025! 🏆 Among the top 10 most-cited papers in Nursing Philosophy last year. Thanks to everyone reading and sharing this work 🙌 #TopCitedArticle #PhilosophyResearch @flindersuniversity.bsky.social
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
💊 She wakes up to 12 pills, 3 specialists, and 1 fragmented plan. “Self-care” in multimorbidity is not independence. It is vigilance, trade offs, and cognitive labour shifted to patients and families. This is not self-management. It is system failure. doi.org/10.1111/jocn... #Multimorbidity
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Self‐Care Experiences and Support Needs of Community‐Dwelling Older Adults With Multimorbidity: A Qualitative Study Informed by the Caring Life‐Course Theory
Aim To explore how community-dwelling older adults with multimorbidity experience, enact and navigate daily self-care using the Caring Life-Course Theory to identify opportunities for strengthening .....
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
✨ Invited for the second year to guest lecture in Digital Health Management at Flinders University 🎓 Key skills: understanding behaviour, thinking across disciplines, making data-driven decisions, and managing predictive risk. 🎧 speechify.app.link/XzSamWe2E1b%... 📗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
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Speechify: Text to Speech & Voice Typing AI Assistant | 55M+ Users
Speechify reads anything aloud to you. Listen to books, PDFs, or web pages anytime with natural voices. Try Speechify free.
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Honoured to be acknowledged by DIGITAL HEALTH / SAGE as a reviewer for 2025. Peer review is quiet work, but essential to research quality and integrity. Grateful to contribute. doi.org/10.1177/2055... #PeerReview #DigitalHealth #ResearchIntegrity
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Thanks to reviewers, 2026
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
If we can predict disease, why can’t we predict innovation adoption in healthcare? In this podcast, I introduce PROLIFERATE, the precursor to PROLIFERATE_AI. 🎧 speechify.app.link/XzSamWe2E1b%... 📖 www.frontiersin.org/journals/hea...
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Humanities & Social Sciences @hss.springernature.com · 02/03/2026
🔍 Behind the Paper: 'The 2026 challenge: turning wicked problems into living evidence for care, health innovation, and evaluation in a post-truth political economy.' 🔗 Read more here: bit.ly/4rKdxw8. 🛟📊🩺 @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social #PublicHealth
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The 2026 challenge: turning wicked problems into living evidence for care, health innovation, and evaluation in a post-truth political economy
Across healthcare systems, the hardest problems are “wicked”, not because we lack ideas, but because there is no single agreed-upon definition of success, and every solution changes the system it enters. In that terrain, innovation fails when systems cannot learn together fast enough.
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Why can’t we stop eating junk food? It’s not just willpower. Many food choices are semi-conscious, shaped by habits & environments. 🎧 speechify.app.link/Qb5c7X8Yz1b Thesis: hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU... #PublicHealth #Obesity #BehaviourChange
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Dr Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza @drpinerodeplaza.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Thrilled to complete @MIT’s Applied AI & Data Science Program (16 CEUs, ~160 hours). Bringing stronger applied AI + implementation science capability to drive responsible, equitable digital health impact at scale. Open to collaboration. #AI #DataScience #ImplementationScience
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