Technology development and service design: Both are needed simultaneously! | Humanities & Social Sciences

Technology development and service design: Both are needed simultaneously!

Tuesday Seminar
Speaker: 
Ravi Elangovan
Date and Time: 
Tue, 09/10/2018 - 12:00am
Schedule: 
03:30 PM to 05:00 PM
Venue: 
HSS Committee Room (MS 610)

Abstract

Low resource countries like India have a significant healthcare burden due  to infectious disease. Lack of diagnostic technology at the bottom of the pyramid has let to indiscriminate use of antibiotics and poor health outcomes. My group has been working to develop diagnostic solutions that can be deployable at the community settings. Currently these are at different stages of commercialization. Lately we have realised that technology development is only a part of the solution, and all products must be designed to provide a service to the user. This is particularly true for a technological solution to a complex healthcare ecosystem. I will discuss my group's journey on this pathway.

Bio

Ravikrishnan Elangovan is Associate Professor, Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is an undergraduate from IIT-Delhi and has a Ph.D. from the University of Florence, Italy. A biophysicist by training, Ravi is actively engaged in developing methods/technologies for visualizing biological systems. He and his team have developed four platform technologies for infectious disease diagnosis.