With rising complexity of diseases and increasing availability of novel technologies, digital health applications are expanding in scope and scale in multiple domains of surveillance, diagnostics, clinical decision support and more. A key challenge facing research and practice is in building more unified perspectives that bridge the biomedical and social domains of care, which historically have remained fragmented, both technically and institutionally. This presentation addresses this challenge in building such a “bioinfosocial” perspective and how it can be achieved empirically in the particular context of 'antimicrobial resistance' (AMR).
Sundeep Sahay is a Professor of Informatics at the University of Oslo, Norway, since 2000. He is also the founder/mentor of a not for profit HISP India working on strengthening public health information systems based on open source digital platforms in India and other South East Asian countries such as Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. His current research, primarily anchored in a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective, focuses primarily on understanding the interconnected social, political, cultural and material dimensions shaping the adoption and evolution of health information systems across multiple developing countries. His current research focus is on Antimicrobial Resistance in human health and riverine environments.