Patty Kostkova is Professor in Digital Health and the Director of UCL IRDR Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies. She is a world leading researcher in the novel interdisciplinary domain of digital public health. During the COVID-19 crisis, Patty has been working with and advising WHO on digital strategy, providing analysis of social media discourse in the context of COVID-19, while working with her team on a gamified app to monitor compliance with stay-at-home policy.