This month, CATCH Centre Director, Professor Mark Hawley
travelled to the Netherlands to join a symposium to mark the career of
Professor Luc de Witte who leaves his role as Director for the Centre of
Expertise on Innovative Care and Technology (EIZT) this week to take up the
role of Chair within CATCH.
The symposium, Technology and Healthcare Innovation: fromRegional Challenges to Global Opportunities also recognised the developments of
EIZT since its launch four years ago.
International colleagues including members of the World Health
Organisation and individuals from Bangalore Baptist Hospital joined Professors
from local universities as well as our very own Mark, representing CATCH, to
contribute to the day which focussed on the importance of Assistive Technology,
Connected Healthcare and Health in Slums.
Limburg, compared to other regions within the Netherlands has
the fastest growing number of elderly people which is contributing to economic
challenges. But these challenges aren’t unique to the region. And this is why
it’s so important to connect the region’s developments with the rest of the
world to lead to better and more effective, jointly developed solutions.
Together, the institutions wanted to present how regional
research and development work in the field of healthcare technology is related
to national and international agendas. Professor Mark Hawley’s talk entitled
“Connected Healthcare in the UK; current trends and future opportunities” did
just this.
For Mark however, the highlight of the day was discovering more
about the ongoing work on the Health in Slums. In a programme supported by Zuyd
and Maastricht University, which the University of Sheffield, through CATCH,
has now joined, the institutions are involving a number of organisations in
India to jointly work on solutions for the healthcare challenges in low
resource settings.
At CATCH, we very much look forward to welcoming Professor Luc
de Witte on Monday 3rd October and continuing this valuable research. You can
read more about the Indian Slums project here.
No comments:
Post a Comment