Dr Sunhea Choi BEng, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor in eLearning, Senior Project Lead - eNutrition

Sunhea develops, implements and evaluates innovative technology enhanced and enabled learning (TEL) in the fields of medicine and nutrition to improve health.

I am passionate about improving health through capacity building of health professionals and public using TEL, especially in malnutrition and nutrition, mental health and rare diseases.

Sunhea’s work focuses on global health capacity building through TEL. She founded the Faculty eLearning team in 2005 and successfully led many innovative TEL and global eHealth projects to completion, i.e. Virtual Patients, psychiatry portal, public health eLearning, nutrition and malnutrition eLearning, pompe’s disease and Understanding Insulin FutureLearn MOOC.

Her recent and on-going TEL projects are EU Erasmus+ Capacity Building projects in early nutrition - ENeA South East Asia (ENeA-SEA) and Improving Early Nutrition in South Africa (ImpENSA), and an impact evaluation study of malnutrition eLearning in Ghana, Guatemala, Colombia and El Salvador. The malnutrition eLearning has been used by >20,000 from over 120 countries and the impact study has shown that it is effective in training health professionals, leading to change in clinical practice and reducing case fatality rate by severe acute malnutrition significantly. Sunhea’s works with health professionals in limited-resource settings – Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa, Ghana, facilitating and mentoring them in the development and rolling out of nutrition eLearning appropriate to their settings.

Sunhea has interests and expertise in the design, implementation and effect evaluation of TEL capacity building solutions for medical, nutrition and public health training globally. Trained in computer science, multimedia, human computer interaction (HCI) and learning psychology, she is specialised in interface design for optimal user experience, innovative and interactive learning solution design, curriculum integration and implementation of TEL at scale. As a certified PRINCE2 and MSP Practitioner, her interests and expertise also include effective project and programme management.

Qualifications 

BEng, Computer Science, Pukyeng University, S.Korea 1993
MSc, Multimedia Technology, Edinburgh Napier University, 1999
PhD, Multimedia and Education, Edinburgh Napier University, 2004

Appointments held

2018  - present Associate Professor in eLearning, Senior Project Lead - eNutrition, University of Southampton
2013 - 2018 Global eHealth Education Lead, eLearning Lead, University of Southampton
2012 - 2017 Research Associate, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
2007 - 2013 eLearning Manager, University of Southampton
2005 - 2007 eLearning Resources Development Coordinator, University of Southampton
1999 - 2004 Part-time Lecturer and Demonstrator, Edinburgh Napier University
1999 - 2005 Part-time Usability Evaluation and Language Consultant, ProQuest Information & Learning Limited