LSHTM-CHARITÉ GLOBAL HEALTH LECTURE SERIES - DIGITAL HEALTH IN TIMES OF COVID-19 Wednesday, July 15, 2020 from 17:00-18:30 CEST Location: Online ...
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LSHTM-CHARITÉ GLOBAL HEALTH LECTURE SERIES DIGITAL HEALTH IN TIMES OF COVID-19 Wednesday, July 15, 2020 from 17:00-18:30 CEST Location: Online via Zoom Registration required: https://bit.ly/3dOwxD9
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Global health lecture series Programme
DIGITAL HEALTH Welcome, Prof Johanna Hanefeld
Introduction: digital health in times of Covid
The Covid-19 pandemic has Dr Henrik Matthies
highlighted the need for accurate,
Peek Vision: leveraging digital health during
reliable and timely data to respond to
Covid-19 as a driver towards UHC
people’s health needs. It has been
Dr Andrew Bastawrous
described as a ‘watershed moment’ for
digital health technologies. At the Setting national data standards for Covid-19:
same time, Covid-19 has highlighted German Corona Consensus Data Set
the inequalities and inequities that Prof Sylvia Thun
underpin vulnerability during
Digital health and the politics of data
epidemics. Can digital health
Dr Manjari Mahajan
technologies be leveraged to address
health inequities? What promises and Question & Answer, Dr Henrik Matthies
pitfalls do technological advances
Closing, Prof Johanna Hanefeld
bring for global health?
Credit: LSHTM Credit: LSHTM
Venue Questions for Speakers
This event will take place online via Feel free to send questions in advance
Zoom. Registration is required: to: berlinlectures@lshtm.ac.uk.
https://bit.ly/3dOwxD9
Acknowledgements
Audience The lecture series is supported by the
The event is public and open to all. A Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
recording will be s on the LSHTM
Vimeo channel.
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SHORT BIO
Dr Matthies is the Managing Director of the German
Federal Ministry of Health’s health innovation hub
(hih). The hih is think tank for and sparring partner to
the Ministry as well as all other national stakeholders
in Germany’s current transformation to a digitized
healthcare system. Prior to that role, he was a serial
entrepreneur and co-founder of several technology
startups. His last venture, Mimi Hearing Technology,
was one of the first apps to be CE-certified as a
DR HENRIK medical product in Europe. Mimi pioneered digital
MATTHIES prevention in Germany to test and safeguard hearing
with medical grade apps based on consumer
MANAGING DIRECTOR, technology equipment. He holds a Ph.D. from RWTH
HEALTH INNOVATION HUB Aachen University, where he explored the
interdependencies between offline and online user
behavior.
SHORT BIO
Dr Bastawrous is an Ophthalmologist (Eye Surgeon),
Associate Professor in International Eye Health at the
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
(LSHTM) and Co-Founder & CEO of Peek Vision. He
has worked and undertaken research in over twenty
countries including two years living in Kenya where
he was leading a major eye disease study and the
development and testing of Peek. In addition to his
work as CEO of Peek, Andrew is also working with
PROF ANDREW astrophysicists to crowdsource retinal data, with
BASTAWROUS National Geographic explorers to reach isolated
communities, and with artists and activists to
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, advocate for eye care globally (Project Light). Andrew
LONDON SCHOOL OF was recently voted one of the world’s 30 most
HYGIENE & TROPICAL influential people in public health, has published over
MEDICINE (LSHTM) 60 peer-reviewed articles, is a TED Fellow, Rolex
Laureate, World Economic Forum Young Global
Leader, Ashoka Fellow and UBS Global Visionary.
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SHORT BIO
Professor Sylvia Thun, MD, PhD is a full professor for
information and communication technology in
healthcare at the University of Applied Sciences
Niederrhein and Visiting Professor at Charité, Berlin.
Her main research areas are standardization and
semantic interoperability. She previously worked at
the German Institute for Medical Documentation and
Information (DIMDI) and was responsible for eHealth,
terminologies and drug information). She coordinates
PROF SYLVIA national and international projects (e.g. FP7 epSOS -
cross-border healthcare in the EU, Horizon 2020
THUN ASSESS CT, BMBF AKTIN , EUCANCAN). As vice chair
of the DIN-NaMED Working Committee
DIRECTOR OF EHEALTH "Terminology", she is a delegate and expert at CEN 215
AND INTEROPERABILITY, and ISO 215. Dr. Thun is chair of HL7 Germany as well
BERLIN INSTITUTE OF as "Past User Chair" and "Caretaker Pharmacy" at IHE
HEALTH (BIH) Germany.
SHORT BIO
Dr Mahajan is Starr Professor and Co-Director of the
India China Institute and an Associate Professor in
the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in
International Affairs at The New School. Her work lies
at the intersection of Science and Technology
Studies, Development Studies, and Anthropology. Her
research and teaching are on the topics of global
health, philanthrocapitalism, and digital governance.
DR MANJARI Much of her empirical focus has been on India and
South Africa, and more recently, on global
MAHAJAN organizations such as the Gates Foundation and the
WHO. She has held fellowships at the Asia Research
STARR PROFESSOR AND Institute at the National University of Singapore, the
CO-DIRECTOR, INDIA Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle,
CHINA INSTITUTE, Germany, and the Social Science Research Council in
THE NEW SCHOOL the United States. Her papers have received prizes
from the Society for Social Studies for Science and
the American Anthropological Association.
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