Graduate Student Scholar, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Graduate Student Scholar
Ankit Singh is a researcher working at the intersection of Digital Public Infrastructure, consumer culture, and health communication, with a particular interest in how technology reshapes the everyday decisions and behaviours of citizens. His work examines how the rapid expansion of DPI—ranging from identity and payment stacks to public-facing digital service platforms—creates new forms of engagement, expectation, and reliance among users. Ankit studies these shifts not only as technological transformations, but as cultural and communicative processes that influence how people understand value, risk, trust, and wellbeing. Whether analyzing the uptake of digital payments, health-tracking apps, or government-supported telemedicine systems, he focuses on how communication design, user experience, and social meaning shape people’s willingness to participate in digital ecosystems, and improve the clarity, accessibility, and credibility of public health messaging—particularly in settings where misinformation, unequal access, or resource constraints make traditional communication channels insufficient.
Research Keywords
Health Communication, Public Health, Digital Public Infrastructure, Policy Awareness
Themes | Global Health & Humanitarianism |
Status | Active |
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