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Katelyn Esmonde

Assistant Professor

School of Kinesiology

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  • Assistant Professor
    School of Kinesiology

BIO

Katelyn Esmonde is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the School oif Kinesiology. Her research focuses on the ethics, practices, and policies of health information and technology, focusing on two main themes. First, she examines the ethical challenges arising from personal, institutional, research, and state efforts to promote health, often with a focus on digital health technologies and physical activity. This work has spanned numerous contexts, including digital contact tracing in the COVID-19 pandemic response, the US state-level COVID-19 response, physical activity public health campaigns such as Play Streets, and mobile health in low- and middle-income countries. Second, she explores how digital health technologies, such as mobile health and fitness apps, shape how people experience physical activity and their body. Dr. Esmonde has explored this question as it relates to gendered fitness practices, as well as institutional uses of digital technologies in workplace wellness programs and in physical education. She draws on qualitative methods, including document analysis, participant observation, and semi-structured interviews.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    Western University, London, Canada1 Jul 2024