WRITING

Everything Patty writes starts from the same place a belief that technology should serve human flourishing and that the evidence and stories we tell about it shape whether it does.

This page collects her non-fiction — the research, essays, and columns that make the case.

fiction

non-fiction

blogs

academic publications

Patty Mecheal - Empowering Women in STEM Book 3 interview

FICTION

Patty's award-winning middle-grade fiction — The Antidotes: Pollution Solution — lives on the Books page →.

BOOKS & EDITED VOLUMES

mHealth in Practice

(Bloomsbury, co-edited with Jonathan Donner) The field's foundational edited volume on mobile health in resource-constrained settings — bringing together leading researchers and practitioners to identify best practices in using mobile technologies to promote healthy behaviours in developing countries.

Widely cited across global health, digital health, and development literature.

Order from Bloomsbury →

NON-FICTION

I have written extensively in my professional and academic publications on public health. I co-edited the book mHealth in Practice. My work has appeared in The Huffington Post and is well represented in renowned health journals and text books. I am a regular contributor to AIMed, writing about responsible AI practices and global health to reduce the amplification of sexism and racism through technology.