About
Dr Edmond Li is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Anaesthesia and Surgery at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH).
Under the guidance of Dr Angela Jerath at the Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI), Edmond’s research focuses on understanding how healthcare provider characteristics and the application of digital health technologies can influence surgical patient outcomes. This includes examining how surgeon and anaesthesiologist personality traits can affect the quality of patient care, practice patterns, and healthcare resource utilisation, as well as investigating the use of wearable health devices preoperatively to predict postoperative outcomes in surgical patients.
Outside of his appointment with IHPME, Edmond’s research interest pertains to the safer, more efficacious implementation and use of digital health in primary care settings. He is also interested in investigating how undergraduate and postgraduate medical curricula can be updated to incorporate digital health training to encourage greater digital literacy and skills proficiency in future healthcare providers.
Edmond is currently the Deputy Chair of the Working Party on Digital Health at the World Organisation for Family Doctors (WONCA), an international expert panel committed to supporting research, education, and policy advocacy efforts to advancing safe, effective, and evidence-based application of digital health technologies in primary care settings. Edmond also remains an Honorary Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Global Digital Health Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London.
Prior to his roles in academia, Edmond worked as a technical consultant with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme in Geneva, Switzerland. His work pertained primarily to the 2018 Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as assisting with monitoring and reporting of other communicable disease outbreaks worldwide. During the initial year of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian conflict, Edmond worked with the WHO Ukraine Health Cluster, contributing to ongoing humanitarian response efforts through the design, implementation, monitoring, and analysis of healthcare-related assessments.
Edmond holds an MB BCh BAO from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and an MPH from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He obtained his PhD in Health Policy and Patient Safety from Imperial College London in 2024.
