Dr Kit Huckvale

Director of Research and Senior Research Fellow in Digital Health

Kit is a clinically trained digital health researcher focused on building systems that generate decision-relevant evidence for emerging health technologies before they are deployed in clinical care. He leads the Centre's Digital Health Validitron, a research lab that uses clinical simulation and pre-implementation evaluation to test the safety, performance, and workflow fit of digital and AI-enabled tools.

Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, Kit was Research Fellow in Health Informatics at the Black Dog Institute. He holds a PhD in eHealth from Imperial College London, and his research examines methods for assessing the quality, safety, and real-world performance of digital health applications, with a focus on implementation, human factors, and system integration.

His work demonstrates how early-stage evaluation can change the trajectory of digital health initiatives by identifying whether and how solutions can function within real-world health systems, including uncovering safety and workflow risks, prompting redesign, and redirecting investment away from ineffective approaches. More broadly, he develops and applies methods that enable health systems, researchers, and industry partners to make earlier, more reliable decisions about the design, adoption, and implementation of digital health technologies.