Gunther Eysenbach is a German-Canadian researcher on healthcare, especially health policy, eHealth, and consumer health informatics.

Career

Eysenbach was born on 22 March 1967 in

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. While a

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, he served on the executive board as elected communication director, later as vice-president of the

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. He received an

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from the

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and a Master of Public Health from

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. From 1999 to 2002 he founded and headed a research unit on cybermedicine and ehealth at the

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and organized and chaired the World Congress on Internet in Medicine. In March 2002, he emigrated to

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and since then has been senior scientist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the

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( Toronto, Ontario, Canada), and associate professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the

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. Eysenbach works in the field of consumer health informatics. He has written several books and articles, and organizes conferences. He is

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of the ''

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''. From 2000-2008, he served as working group chair for the WG Consumer Health Informatics of the

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. Other contributions include: * Initiator, organizer, and chair of the annual Medicine 2.0 Congress * Eysenbach has conducted a study on the association between search engine queries and influenza incidence, which was replicated by other research groups 2–3 years later. He coined the terms " infoveillance" and " infodemiology" for these kinds of approaches. * Eysenbach is initiator of

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, an archiving service for scholarly authors and editors citing webpages. * Together with his former student Paul Kudlow, he cofounded TrendMD, a scholarly recommendation system and cross-publisher content marketing platform * He founded and serves as CEO for the Canadian publisher JMIR Publications, which is the publisher of the

and 30 other open access journals; JMIR Publications is notable as one of Canada's fastest growing companies according to Business Insider * He co-founded the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association ( OASPA)

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