Holly Witteman, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family & Emergency Medicine, Université Laval (Laval University), Quebec City, Canada. Quebec City is traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat, Abenaki, Wabanaki Confederacy, Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) & Haudenosaunee peoples. Dr. Witteman directs the research unit within the Faculty of Medicine’s Office of Education and Professional Development. She is also a scientist at the Research Centre of the CHU de Québec-Université Laval, at the new Institute of Primary Care Research affiliated with Laval University, and an Affiliate Investigator at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada, traditional Algonquin territory.

With an interdisciplinary background in human factors engineering and social sciences, her research is about the design and evaluation of digital and other media in health decision making. She specializes in human-computer interaction in health education, risk communication and decision making, including design methods to support inclusive user- and patient-centeredness.

Her work as Principal Investigator has been funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS), the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI, United States), the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Design for Better Health

The project consists of developing and evaluating novel, needed tools to support evidence-informed, values-congruent decisions in primary care. These tools will be used in modules (mobile-enabled web applications) to support six (6) common decisions in primary care. Emotional and cognitive effects of these tools will be evaluated to ensure they evoke desired responses (e.g., reduced confusion, increased rates of evidence-informed, values-congruent decisions). The modules’ usability and user experience will also be evaluated to ensure they are useful, easy to use and engaging, as these are critical predictors of future use, and collect pilot data to inform plans for further evaluation beyond this program.

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Markowitz B, de Sequeira S, Najam A, Pritlove C, Greenberg D, Greenberg M, Chan CM, Lakhanpal G, Jagadeesh S, Mukerji G, Shulman R, Witteman HO, Yu CH, Booth GL, Parsons JA,

Beyond Hemoglobin A1c-Outcomes That Matter to Individuals With Type 1 Diabetes in Adopting Digital Health Interventions for Self-Management Support: Qualitative Study

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JMIR Diabetes, 9 , 2024.

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Couture V, Germain N, Côté É, Lavoie L, Robitaille J, Morin M, Chouinard J, Couturier Y, Légaré F, Hardy MS, Chartier LB, Brousseau AA, Sourial N, Mercier É, Dallaire C, Fleet R, Leblanc A, Melady D, Roy D, Sinha S, Sirois MJ, Witteman HO, Émond M, Rivard J, Pelletier I, Turcotte S, Samb R, Giguère R, Abrougui L, Smith PY, Archambault PM,

Transitions of care for older adults discharged home from the emergency department: an inductive thematic content analysis of patient comments

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BMC Geriatr, 24 (1), 2024.

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Hakim H, Driedger SM, Gagnon D, Chevrier J, Roch G, Dubé E, Witteman HO

Digital Gamification Tools to Enhance Vaccine Uptake: Scoping Review

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JMIR Serious Games, 12 , 2024.

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Shuldiner J, Green ME, Kiran T, Khan S, Frymire E, Moineddin R, Kerr M, Tadrous M, Nowak DA, Kwong JC, Hu J, Witteman HO, Hamilton B, Bogoch I, Marshall LJ, Ikura S, Bar-Ziv S, Kaplan D, Ivers N

Characteristics of primary care practices by proportion of patients unvaccinated against SARS-CoV-2: a cross-sectional cohort study

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CMAJ, 196 (13), 2024.

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Tricco AC, Parker A, Khan PA, Nincic V, Robson R, MacDonald H, Warren R, Cleary O, Zibrowski E, Baxter N, Burns KEA, Coyle D, Ndjaboue R, Clark JP, Langlois EV, Ahmed SB, Witteman HO, Graham ID, El-Adhami W, Skidmore B, Légaré F, Curran J, Hawker G, Watt J, Bourgeault IL, Leigh JP, Lawford K, Aiken A, McCabe C, Shepperd S, Pattani R, Leon N, Lundine J, Adisso ÉL, Ono S, Rabeneck L, Straus SE

Interventions on gender equity in the workplace: a scoping review

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BMC Med, 22 (1), 2024.

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Ndjaboue R, Beaudoin C, Comeau S, Dagnault A, Dogba MJ, Numainville S, Racine C, Straus S, Tremblay MC, Witteman HO

Patients as teachers: a within-subjects randomized pilot experiment of patient-led online learning modules for health professionals

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BMC Med Educ, 24 (1), 2024.

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Dionne M, Étienne D, Witteman HO, Sauvageau C, Dubé È

Impact of interventions to improve HPV vaccination acceptance and uptake in school-based programs: Findings of a pilot project in Quebec

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Vaccine, 42 (18), 2024.

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Schwartz KL, Shuldiner J, Langford BJ, Brown KA, Schultz SE, Leung V, Daneman N, Tadrous M, Witteman HO, Garber G, Grimshaw JM, Leis JA, Presseau J, Silverman MS, Taljaard M, Gomes T, Lacroix M, Brehaut J, Thavorn K, Gushue S, Friedman L, Zwarenstein M, Ivers N

Mailed feedback to primary care physicians on antibiotic prescribing for patients aged 65 years and older: pragmatic, factorial randomised controlled trial

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BMJ, 385 , 2024.

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Hakim H, Bettinger JA, Chambers CT, Driedger SM, Dubé E, Gavaruzzi T, Giguere A, Ivers NM, Julien AS, MacDonald SE, Noubi M, Orji R, Parent E, Sander B, Scherer AM, Wilson K, Reinharz D, Witteman HO

An Online Application to Explain Community Immunity with Personalized Avatars: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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medRxiv, 2024.

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Germain N, Jémus-Gonzalez E, Couture V, Côté É, Morin M, Toulouse-Fournier A, Bert L, Giguère R, Sinha S, Sourial N, Chartier LB, Witteman HO, Légaré F, Samb R, Turcotte S, Chandavong S, Abrougui L, Robitaille J, Archambault PM,

Caregivers' burden of care during emergency department care transitions among older adults: a mixed methods cohort study

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BMC Geriatr, 24 (1), 2024.

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Active projects

  • Answering questions that matter to people living with diabetes using the Canadian National Diabetes Registry, from 2020-03-01 to 2025-03-31
  • Canadian Population Screening for Risk of Type 1 Diabetes Research Consortium, from 2023-06-01 to 2027-05-31
  • Coronavirus Variants Rapid Response Network: CoVaRR-Net, from 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-31
  • Design for Better Health: User-Centred Design and Evaluation of Interactive Media for Health Education, Communication and Decision-Making, from 2016-07-01 to 2025-03-31
  • Diabetes Action Canada - Mobilizing Knowledge and Implementing Equitable and Cost-Effective Health and Social Care Services for Persons Living with Diabetes in Canada, from 2022-04-01 to 2026-03-31
  • Discussion sur le fardeau du traitement entre les personnes vivant avec le diabète et leur médecin de famille, from 2024-02-20 to 2025-03-31
  • Find Your CommuniT1D: Customized Virtual Peer Support for People Living with Type 1 Diabetes, from 2023-05-01 to 2027-03-31
  • Human-Centred Digital Health, from 2024-10-01 to 2029-09-30
  • Innovative National Strategies for Patient-Oriented Research Education / Stratégies nationales innovantes en éducation pour la stratégie de recherche axée sur le patient (INSPIRE), from 2021-03-01 to 2027-02-28
  • It’s about protecting my community”: Randomized Controlled Trials of Personalized, Digital Health Vaccination Decision Support, from 2020-12-01 to 2025-03-31
  • La santé numérique centrée sur l'humain pour soutenir la prise de décision en santé, from 2022-11-01 to 2024-12-31
  • Meilleures Pratiques en Oncologie Pédiatrique : recherche appliquée auprès des Familles (MP OncoPed-Familles), from 2022-01-15 to 2028-03-31
  • Mobilizing and Transferring Knowledge Between Northern Communities and Sentinel North, from 2020-11-01 to 2024-12-31
  • Reducing low-value practices in acute trauma care: a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial, from 2023-04-01 to 2027-03-31
  • Scalable, Customizable, Digital Health Communication Materials to Help Canada Address the COVID19 Pandemic, from 2020-06-01 to 2025-03-31
  • Scaling up shared decision making for patient-centred care, from 2018-07-01 to 2025-06-30
  • Sex and Gender in Digital Health, from 2023-04-01 to 2025-03-31
  • Technologies numériques pour les Personnes âgées vivant Avec des troubles Cognitifs et leurs proches : Codéveloppement d’un Outil d’Aide à la Décision (TecPAC-OAD), from 2023-02-08 to 2025-03-31
  • Testing COVID-19 vaccine decision aids with health care workers, from 2021-01-01 to 2025-03-31

Recently finished projects

  • An intervention using narratives to address vaccine hesitancy online, from 2020-03-01 to 2023-03-31
  • Canada Research Chair in Human-Centred Digital Health (Santé numérique axée sur les personnes), from 2019-10-01 to 2024-09-30
  • Impacts des cours prénataux de groupe et en ligne : vers une optimisation des services, from 2016-04-01 to 2023-03-31
  • Improving patient-centered depression care through the dissemination and implementation of the Depression Choice decision aid, from 2018-10-01 to 2023-03-31
  • Promoting resilience in women who have experienced sexual assault: user-centered design and effectiveness of the RESILIENT online platform, from 2022-03-01 to 2023-02-28
  • Strengthening capacity building in health research: towards a consolidated theory-based, inclusive framework and evidencebased, from 2023-04-01 to 2024-03-31
  • Supporting the creation of a LEARNing INteGrated health system to mobilize context-adapted knowledge with a Wiki platform to Improve the transitions of frail Seniors from from hospitals and emergency Departments to the cOMmunity : The ..., from 2017-04-01 to 2023-03-31
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