Colleen Stiles‐Shields
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Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields is a leading researcher at the intersection of digital health, mental health, and underserved populations, with a particular focus on leveraging technology to understand and support youth experiencing homelessness. Her work is pioneering in its use of passive smartphone data—such as geolocation patterns and Wi-Fi connectivity rates—to gain novel insights into psychiatric symptoms and daily lived experiences. In her most cited study, a mixed-methods investigation of urban homeless youth, she demonstrated how digital behaviors can reveal critical patterns of movement and isolation, offering a new pathway for designing just-in-time adaptive interventions. This work, which has garnered early citations for its innovative methodology, underscores her commitment to developing ethical, data-driven mental health solutions for marginalized communities. Dr. Stiles-Shields’ contributions are reshaping how researchers think about mobile health (mHealth) and digital phenotyping, moving beyond traditional self-report to capture real-world, real-time data. Her research not only advances the science of digital intervention design but also champions the inclusion of voices often left out of technology-based health research.
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