Malika Mammadova
Malika Mammadova has been a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research Department of Prevention and Health Promotion since 2025. She is a scientific researcher at the Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health Bremen (LSC DiPH), an interdisciplinary research collaboration led by the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS.
Her PhD research is aimed at understanding social inequalities within the Digital Public Health context, with a particular focus on health misinformation and privacy.
Work experience
Since 2025: Scientific Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS (Germany)
January 2024 – June 2024: Master’s Thesis student at DIGNITY – Danish Institute Against Torture (Denmark)
April 2021 – May 2022: Research Assistant at the Center for Population Health Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Education
MSc Psychology (2024). Lund University (Sweden)
BA Psychology (Hons) (2020). Yale-NUS College, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Journal articles
Pienkowska, A., Ravaut, M., Mammadova, M., Ang, C. S., Wang, H., Ong, Q. C., ... & Car, J. (2024). Understanding COVID-19 Impacts on the Health Workforce: AI-Assisted Open-Source Media Content Analysis. JMIR Formative Research, 8(1), e53574.
Pienkowska, A., Ang, C. S., Mammadova, M., Mahadzir, M. D. A., & Car, J. (2023). A Diabetes Education App for People Living With Type 2 Diabetes: Co-Design Study. JMIR Formative Research, 7, e45490. https://doi.org/10.2196/45490
Lo, Z. J., Chong, B., Tan, E., Ooi, D., Liew, H., Hoi, W. H., ... & Car, J. (2023). Patients, carers and healthcare providers’ perspectives on a patient-owned surveillance system for diabetic foot ulcer care: A qualitative study. Digital Health, 9, 20552076231183544.
Bojic, I.*, Mammadova, M.*, Ang, C. S., Teo, W. L., Diordieva, C., Pienkowska, A., Ga?evi?, D., & Car, J. (2023). Empowering Health Care Education Through Learning Analytics: In-depth Scoping Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, e41671. https://doi.org/10.2196/41671
Keng, SL., Chin, J.W.E., Mammadova, M. et al. Effects of Mobile App-Based Mindfulness Practice on Healthcare Workers: a Randomized Active Controlled Trial. Mindfulness13, 2691–2704 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01975-8
*Shared first authorship
Conference presentations
Mammadova, M. (August 26-29, 2025). Social Inequalities in Digital Health Misinformation. Poster presentation at European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) Conference in Groningen, Netherlands.
Chai, J., Obana, T., Mammadova, M., & Asplund, C. L. (August 26-28, 2023). Value influences on feature gain control in temporal attentional capture. Poster presentation at Consciousness Research Network in Taipei, Taiwan.
Chin, J. W. E., Keng, S.-L., Teo, I., Mammadova, M., Chua, I.J.J., Kang, H., & Wang, Z. (July 5-7, 2021). Effects of App-based Mindfulness Practice on Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Poster presentation at Asian Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (Asian CBT) Virtual Conference.
Keng, S.-L., Chin, J. W. E., Mammadova, M., Teo, I., Kang, H., Chua, I.J.J., & Wang, Z. (May 26-27, 2021). Effects of mobile-based mindfulness practice on psychological resilience among healthcare workers. Poster presentation at Association for Psychological Science (APS) Virtual Convention.