User involvement in medical innovation (PhD)
Research Policy
This paper clarifies why technology developers are pushed to prioritize design features that expedite sales, often to the detriment of design features that would increase the clinical value of their technology.
Lehoux & al. (2014). How do business models and health technology design influence each other? Insights from a longitudinal case study of three academic spin-offs, Research Policy.
Robson Rocha de Oliveira
Robson is an M.D. specialized in public health and health services management. He has practical experience in the Brazilian health system (public and private sector). He has been Assistant Professor of Public Health and Director of the Medicine Program at Anhembi Morumbi University. His research focuses on AI and digital tools and the analysis of social networks.
Loes Knaapen
Patient involvement in pharmaceutical market approval (postdoc)
Patrick Vachon (honorary member)
Interested in how objects work and invention, Patrick worked in mechanical engineering and later became a programmer, analyst and teacher of applied computer sciences in various cities in North America. After a few years in TV post-production, he joined the team in 2007 to combine two passions – science and communication – and contribute to a key societal issue: our health.
Antoine Boivin
Patient and public involvement in clinical care priority-setting (PhD)
Hudson P. Silva
Health innovation policies in Brazil and Canada (postdoc)
Dahlia Kairy
Assessment of telereadaptation: clinical and organisational changes (PhD)
Julie Fattal
Patient and consumer groups in health technology assessment (MSc)
The problem of health technology
This book explains how health technology is embedded in broader social and political practices that can be reshaped through appropriate policy initiatives. It was short-listed along 3 others for the 2007 Best Book Award of the British Sociology Association and Sociology of Health & Illness.
Lehoux. P. (2006). The problem of health technology. Policy implications for modern health care systems. New York: Routledge.