Nora Engel is associate professor transdisciplinary global health at Athena Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research explores how social science approaches can support equitable innovation and transformations in global health.  Nora is an Associate Member at the McGill International TB Centre, McGill University, Canada. Together with Amrita Daftary (York University, Canada) and Jeremiah Chikovore (Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa), Nora founded and directs SSHIFTB, a virtual centre focused on social science research and innovation to address the global tuberculosis epidemic. Nora has served as technical expert on user perspectives for several World Health Organization guideline development group meetings on TB diagnostics.

My research program spans ethnographic studies of innovation processes along the entire value chain, transdisciplinary methods alongside RCTs or evaluation studies, and studies of experiential knowledge to diversify the global evidence base for decision-making in global health. Using theoretical insights from Science and Technology Studies, medical sociology, anthropology, innovation studies and transdisciplinary methods, my research focuses on the practices and dynamics of innovating, developing, maintaining, evaluating and appraising technologies and interventions to address global health challenges. Research interests include (infectious disease) diagnostics, point-of-care-testing programmes, mobile/digital health solutions, tuberculosis, integrated respiratory care, post infection disease and diversifying evidence for decision- and guideline-making.

I currently serve as Program Director of the research master Global Health, a 2 year programme that trains students in transdisciplinary global health research.

Within the master programme I coordinate the course Global Health Interventions, wherein students design an intervention and its evaluation for a global health challenge, and critically reflect on the relation between the two and what this means for the type of solutions and responsibilities assigned.

I also serve as course director and faculty in McGill’s Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health. I am course director of the weeklong international workshop on Qualitative Methods in Global Infectious Diseases Research 

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