Her research includes mobile gamified training and education interventions to improve health awareness and health capacity, and big data early-warning and prediction systems for infectious outbreaks and epidemics in Brazil, south Africa, Nigeria, Nepal, Middle East and Europe.
Prof Kostkova holds a number of prestigious prizes: she won the Innovator of the Year 2019, was a finalist for the Woman of the Year Award 2017 and the Team Leader of the Year Award in 2018 by Computing Women in IT Excellence Awards competition. Her research was also awarded the EHI 2012 Prize – finalist in Category “Best Use of social media in healthcare” and BCS and Computing: UK IT Industry Awards 2012 – finalist in Category „IT project demonstrating most effective use of collaborative technology'.