Translational Health Sciences

This talk argues for engaging with AI ethics before AI-led reasoning becomes institutionally embedded. Artificial intelligence (AI) presents both profound opportunities and unprecedented challenges for the evaluation profession. These remain insufficiently examined. Evaluators embrace AI for data analysis, evidence synthesis, and decision support. This talk examines three critical consequences: th...

This talk explores the complexities, entanglements and crossroads at which digital health as a field now lives and stands. Innovative digital technologies, such as AI, hold significant promise to further the global attainment of health and well-being. Such technologies could provide access to professional and personalized care at speed, scale and low-cost. However, in this field, the values, inter...

Fireside conversation between Prof Devi Sridhar and Mia Malan exploring how scientific evidence is translated into public understanding and collective action in global health. Drawing on Prof Devi Sridhar’s experience as a prominent public voice in print, broadcast, and digital media, and Mia Malan's expertise as editor-in chief of Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism, it examines how experts co...

Prof Carolyn Steele-Gray discusses the critical gap in understanding of underlying mechanisms that are activated by strategies to generate desired implementation outcomes. Despite substantial growth in implementation research, the field has become increasingly dominated by frameworks and studies that catalogue barriers and enablers to implementation success. While these approaches have been instru...

Prof Eivind Engebretsen discusses why sustainability in health care cannot be implemented. Sustainability in health care is widely framed as a problem of implementation: policies are designed, evidence is assembled, and failure is diagnosed when action does not follow. This lecture challenges that framing. Prof Engebretsen argues that sustainability in health care cannot be implemented because it...

Professor Lou Garrison gives a whistle-stop tour de force of his many years of work at the interface of innovation markets and innovation value to healthcare systems and patients. Professor Lou Garrison gives a whistle-stop tour de force of his many years of work at the interface of innovation markets and innovation value to healthcare systems and patients. He delves into his i...

Dr Becky McCall examines the potential of digital storytelling as part of the behavioural science framework. Within public health, storytelling - including digital storytelling (DST) - is frequently examined through a scientific lens, whether as a research method or an interventional tool for influencing behaviour change. However, DST is inherently an arts-based practice, grounded in the...

Mitchell Warren will provide updates on AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition's (AVAC) court challenge against the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID and offer his insights into what a more resilient global health funding infrastructure could look like Recent, dramatic shifts in global health funding include cuts to US and UK foreign aid. This has had a cascade of devasting consequences on trea...

Educating future leaders in Africa and driving transformational impact on African economies.

This lecture will provide a brief journey into the future, providing projections for how our lives will change as technological innovations continue to accelerat In an era marked by unprecedented technological advancements, our world is undergoing a profound transformation that challenges the very essence of what it means to be human. From the rise of artificial intelligence, to the widespread use...

Unfortunately, many digital health interventions fail to realize their potential. Although there is no recipe for success, there are ways in which developers, implementers, and adopters can help to maximize successful implementation, adoption, and scaling Unfortunately, many digital health interventions fail to realize their potential. Although there is no recipe for success, there are ways in whi...

Professor Kabir Sheikh discusses how social trends shape health systems in low- and middle-income countries, focusing on the complex mix of public-private, traditional-modern, and digital-nondigital axes. Health systems are social systems, and are shaped by broader trends such as urbanisation, commercialisation, the information revolution, and the post-pandemic social reordering. Against that back...

Mr Khaled Dawas shares his recent experiences of working in Gaza as a surgeon providing emergency care. In this episode, Mr Khaled Dawas reflects on the targeting of health facilities and health workers during the conflict, the implications for medical education in Palestine and the role of global health students and practitioners world-wide. The main lecture is delivered by Mr Dawas and will also...

Professor Nick Watts explores net zero in the context of health care. Working at the intersection of politics, policy, industry, healthcare and academia, Professor Nick Watts will reflect on his time as Chief Sustainability Officer of the NHS, on the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Health Care, and his current role at the National University of Singapore. He will explore what net zero means in th...

Adopting a critical perspective, Dr Orsolya Ihasz outlines what makes social enterprisers valuable, and how could they contribute to the creation of important services and products to marginalised and disenfranchised communities. The urgency of global concerns such as health inequality, poverty and education demand rapid intervention. The role of social enterprises are key to addressing today's so...

Dr Brian Adu Asare discusses Health Technology Assessment (HTA) using Ghana as a case study. HTA is pivotal in informing healthcare decision-making. It is a tool which helps in ensuring effective resource allocation and optimizing health outcomes. In resource-constrained settings, such as Ghana, the institutionalization, conduct, and uptake of HTA seeks to contribute to maximizing outcomes with li...

Guest lecturer Dr Nick Fahy is a research group director for health and wellbeing at RAND Europe, where he oversees research in such areas as health systems and healthcare innovation, and the behavioural and social determinants of health and wellbeing. Innovation is the central challenge facing health systems. The constant expansion in our ability to improve health has brought us benefits of lengt...