From Innovations to users (and back)

The conceptual structure focuses on the technology life-cycle, consisting of research & development (R&D), prototyping and implementation. In order to better understand users and their impact on the transferability of health technologies into new contexts for each of these building blocks, we have assembled a large, interdisciplinary team of academics. Together, we undertake three inter-and transdisciplinary, multi-sited case studies within the themes of vaccinology, anti-microbial resistance (AMR) and mental health. These have been co-created with co-principal investigators based at African research institutions.

The scientific program of this Research Unit conceptualizes user-technology relations in a finegrained manner, zooming in on the different stages of the life cycle of technological innovations in order to portray and compare various forms of user-involvements and user-requirements in the global health context.