
Contact information
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arlene/
Email: amoetomo@uwaterloo.ca
Arlene is a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo. She completed a BSc in Health Studies from the University of Waterloo in 2018. She is a health and climate researcher looking at in-home health behaviour monitoring via IoT and smart home technologies (like smart thermostats), focusing on the impacts of extreme heat events (heat waves) on health as a result of climate change.
She previously worked on the ConnectingGTA project, a regional electronic health record system project lead by the University Health Network. Her other experiences include a co-op term spent in Amsterdam, the Netherlands at a medical research software company and leading a health records project at Saint Elizabeth Health Care.
Research interests
- Climate change
- IoT
- Interoperability
- Smart-technology
Education
BSc Health Studies, Minor Gerontology - University of Waterloo