The HCRI Student Society is hosting Dr Mathew Harris to talk about his new book 'Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation: Low-Cost Solutions from Low-Income Countries'.
PRACTICAL INFO
Register via the Student Union website at: https://manchesterstudentsunion.com/events/id/5656-decolonizing-healthcare-innovation
The venue is the Samuel Alexander Theatre.
For any questions, please contact the Society via: https://manchesterstudentsunion.com/activities/view/hcrisoc
Open to all.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This fascinating book offers a pathway for the NHS to adopt low-cost but effective innovations from areas of the world traditionally seen as beneficiaries rather than providers of help and support.
In an era of increasing demand and dwindling resources, and where the COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated the structural limitations of the current system, the book provides examples of simple, frugal but high-quality alternatives to current practice. From orthopaedics to paediatrics, and mental health to plastic surgery, the book illustrates how low- and middle-income countries have found solutions to healthcare issues that are not only safe and clinically effective but also have the potential to save the NHS millions of pounds. Grounded in the contemporary debates of decolonization, it invites readers to question the culture and systems in global health that view low-income countries as solely passive recipients of aid.
The volume will be essential reading for students and scholars across Public Health, Global Health, and Development Studies, as well as healthcare managers and policy makers in the UK and beyond.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Matthew Harris (DPhil MBBS MSc PGCE FFPH) is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health, in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, and he is an Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine in the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. His research spans global health, innovation diffusion, and primary care and health services research with a particular focus on bidirectional learning between the NHS and low-income countries (Reverse Innovation). This has included measuring unconscious bias against low-income countries, evaluating International Health Partnerships and conducting qualitative research around Reverse Innovation. In 2014 he was awarded a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowship to research Reverse Innovation in the US as a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at New York University, under the mentorship of Prof James Macinko (UCLA) and Dr Don Goldmann (Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston). In 2018 he was awarded an Imperial College London Presidents Excellence in Teaching and Learning grant to advance the Reverse Innovation agenda in higher education by 'decolonizing' the curriculum of the Masters in Public Health. In 2019 he was appointed co-Editor of the Reverse Innovation series in the BioMed Central journal Globalization and Health.
Matthew was an Educational Supervisor for Public Health Specialist Registrars undertaking academic placements at Imperial College and the Co-Director of the Masters in Public Health at Imperial College London (2016-2022). He leads the Global Health Innovations module of the Masters in Public Health, and the Global Health Innovations specialisation of the online Global Masters in Public Health. He was appointed Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes in the School of Public Health, in 2022.
Matthew qualified in Medicine from UCL (1998), obtained his MSc (Public Health in Developing Countries) with Distinction from the LSHTM (2004), and his DPhil (Public Health) from Oxford University in 2009. He obtained his Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in Public Health Medicine in March 2014. Prior to joining Imperial College London, Matthew worked for several years as a Primary Care physician in Brazil, as a WHO Polio Consultant in Ethiopia and as an HIV Technical Consultant in Mozambique. As a Specialist Registrar in Public Health, he also spent two years as a Global Health Advisor to the UK Department of Health. Matthew has been an advisor to the Pan-American Health Organization on issues related to health policy in Brazil; an Expert Witness at the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health, an invited speaker at a number of international conferences and a guest lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at Kings College London.
Matthew is an Honorary Advisor to the Tropical Health Education Trust for his work on bidirectional learning with low-income country health systems, as well as Vice Chair of Primary Care International, a social enterprise supporting primary care training and delivery in low- and middle-income countries.
Matthew has published over one hundred articles in journals such as Nature Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, International Journal of Integrated Care, Globalization and Health, BMJ Quality and Safety, Qualitative Health Research, Administration and Society, and Public Administration and Development.
