Edward Boyer is an Adjunct Faculty Member at The Fenway Institute. He is also Director of Academic Development, Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.
His areas of research include the relationship between technology and behavioral change with a particular interest in the intersection of mobile technologies, substance abuse, and HIV, the use of mobile technology for improvement in antiretroviral adherence, the development of novel behavioral interventions for use in a mobile space, the detection of active episodes of drug use, and digital pills for medication adherence. He has also evaluated the use of machine learning and natural language processing algorithms to detect behavioral change, the effect of club drugs, adulterants, and coingestants on HIV transmission risk, and the impact of the Internet on drug use behaviors in adolescents.