Professor of Health Management & Policy and Professor of Sociology (by courtesy)
About
I am a sociologist with appointments in the Department of Health Management & Policy in the School of Public Health, and in the Department of Sociology (by courtesy), at the University of Michigan.
My research explores issues of cooperation, trust and privacy in a variety of settings, from health care delivery to micro-credit borrowing groups to online groups such as Wikipedia and Prosper.com. I also study organizations and institutions in health care delivery. My current projects examine the use of information technology in health care, including effects on quality, on the organization of health care, as well as the implications for the privacy and security of protected health information. My multi-disciplinary research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and others, and published in sociology as well as in health policy and computer science journals, including among others the American Sociological Review, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Health Affairs, and IEEE Pervasive Computing.
Prior to joining the University of Michigan in 2018, I was Professor and past-Chair (2007-11) in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine, and a faculty affiliate at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. From 2014-17 I served as Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives at Dartmouth. From 2008-2013 I served as Research Director of the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS) at Dartmouth: http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/.
Dr. Anthony’s current research projects:
- Implications of Health Information Technologies (HIT) for patient trust and engagement
- Role of HIT in organizational and institutional change in health care delivery
- Role of HIT in health care quality, clinical practice, and patient outcomes
- Socio-technical aspects of Smart and embedded cameras: implications for privacy and security
- Sociological aspects of privacy, particularly related to new information technologies
