High value FemTech to enhance women’s global health - Why we need a targeted research agenda? Har passerat
Tisdag 23 maj 2023 16:00 - 17:00 F3
Föreläsare: Caroline Figueroa, Dr. Josephine Sundqvist, PhD, Sarah Wamala-Andersson
Moderator: Andy Bleaden
Spår: Innovation
Women have been historically excluded from healthcare research and women’s health issues still receive inadequate attention, yet women live more years in poor health and with disability. Femtech refers to diagnostic tools, products, services, wearables and software that use technology to address women's health issues. FemTech such as mobile apps, wearables and websites can help not only women’s own health issues, but also can enhance health of their families and benefit communities.
The Global FemTech Market to be valued at ~ $22 billion (2020) with a growth rate of 15% in the next 5 years by the Medi-Tech insights. FemTech facilitated with Artificial Intelligence can potentially offer high value person-centered care for women who have different biological issues across the lifespan. However, research that provides robust evidence of its value is still lacking.
In this seminar, we will discuss various aspects of FemTech related to research gaps, venture capital investment perspectives, global policies and new research prospects.
- The following topics will be discussed:
- Challenges and opportunities of women’s health technologies. And why a rigorous research agenda with targeted research funding is needed,
- Investors perspective on high value FemTech and their role on the impact on the health care system,
- How FemTech can address global health challenges of women and which policies are needed,
- Our new research prospects on FemTech and middle-aged postmenopausal women´s health.
In our research we have found that FemTech is disproportionally concentrated on ‘pre-menopausal’. Digital interventions to address the health needs of middle-aged postmenopausal women is lacking. As women increasingly live longer, there are legitimate concerns to address their post-menopausal health and reduce disease burden while saving health care and societal costs. FemTech gives high hopes and promises of harnessing the taboo-like thinking towards women´s health issues that have long historically been ignored. We discuss the challenges that needs to be addressed before FemTech can reach its potential of improving global women’s health across the lifespan.
Ref to our current research:
Caroline A Figueroa, Josephine Sundqvist, Sunjoy Mathieu, Nasim Farrokhnia, Diane Nevin, Sarah Wamala Andersson. Women’s digital health and welfare technologies for improving global women’s health: A research agenda.2023; In publication.
Ämne
Ny teknik
Språk
English
Seminarietyp
Livesänd
Föreläsningssyfte
Orientering
Kunskapsnivå
Fördjupning
Målgrupp
Chef/Beslutsfattare
Politiker
Tekniker/IT/Utvecklare
Forskare (även studerande)
Omsorgspersonal
Vårdpersonal
Patientorganisationer/Brukarorganisationer
Nyckelord
Nytta/effekt
Välfärdsutveckling
Personcentrering
Innovativ/forskning
Konferens
Vitalis
Föreläsare
Caroline Figueroa Föreläsare
MD., PhD. Assistant Professor in Digital Health
Delft Technical University, the Netherlands
Dr. Figueroa focuses her research on developing and testing personalized digital health tools to help individuals lead healthier lives. She focuses on tailoring these tools to the needs of underserved populations, such as people from ethnic and gender minority backgrounds, low-income individuals, and those with severe mental illness. Among other projects, she studies mobile apps that use artificial intelligence to help individuals manage their mental health and increase their physical activity. She developed frameworks to conduct digital health research through a social justice and feminist intersectionality approach.
Dr. Josephine Sundqvist, PhD Föreläsare
PhD., Secretary-General
Läkarmissionen - LM International (LMI)
A global change manager and an out-of-the-box thinker who is committed to drive digital transformation and in fostering an innovative culture. Carry extensive experience from managing humanitarian and development programs at the global level, regional and country level with a focus on digital health as one thematic priority. Acted as official spokesperson and led all the stages of organisational advocacy, including public affairs and campaigning, research, policy development and media relations. Served as Senior Strategic Advisor at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Strong research skills with a Doctorate, PhD from Uppsala University. Global thematic expertise in the fields of global health, digital transformation, the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development. Carries extensive field experience from work in Eastern and Southern Africa from managing development cooperation on the ground in previous capacities as Global Co-coordinator, CEO, Regional Representative, Senior Advisor and Development Researcher.
Sarah Wamala-Andersson Föreläsare
Professor of Health and Welfare technology
Mälardalens University
Dr. Sarah Wamala Andersson currently serves as the Professor of Health and Welfare Technology, at Mälardalen University in Sweden.
Sarah is passionate about inclusive digital transformation, co-design of human-centered technologies, real-word evidence, implementation, equity, ethics, sustainability, collaborations, children´s future career aspirations
Sarah is the founder and leader of Research group: PREVIVE Health and Welfare Technology Research Group, which stands for Policy, Reimbursement, Evidence, Implementation, Value and Effectiveness in Health and Welfare Technology interventions. https://www.mdu.se/en/malardalen-university/research/research-areas/previve
Sarah´s mission is to generate and use evidence to fast-track digital transformation that is effective, inclusive, and sustainable in ways that make lives better especially for those who are excluded in many ways and contribute to socioeconomic development.
Sarah is the principal investigator of several international and national projects related to implementation of digital health solutions and their effectiveness from a user perspective based on co-creation methodologies. Sarah serves on several international expert panels related to new digital technologies and innovations in health and care systems.
Sarah has a multidisciplinary academic training from several international universities (PhD, medical sciences, Karolinska Institutet), Master´s degree (biostatistics/epidemiology) from Stockholm university, Cambridge School of Public Health (UK) and Tufts University (USA) and bachelor’s degree (economics) from Makerere university (Uganda). Sarah has also completed a Post-doc at the University of Otago, Wellington School of Medicine (New Zealand) and the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford Business Graduate School (USA).
Sarah has long multi-professional experiences and has held several scientific and executive management roles in research-driven public organizations and pharmaceutical industry. Sarah has previously the Swedish government as Director General of the Swedish National Institute of Public Health, Professor of Health policy at Karolinska Institutet, and as Principal research scientist at multinational pharmaceutical companies.
Sarah has supervised several PhD and Master students and has published over 70 scientific articles in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, several books, conference papers, reports and public debate articles.
Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drsarahwamala/
Andy Bleaden Moderator
Director
ECHAlliance