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The inaugural address of prof. dr. ir. Jan-Carel Diehl, will delve into the intersection of design for healthcare accessibility and environmental sustainability. Through a systemic design lens, he will present examples of innovative medical device solutions developed in both high-resource and low-resource settings. These examples illustrate the potential of systemic design in the context of inclusive sustainable healthcare.
Following the inaugural address, a reception will be held to celebrate the appointment as a professor at Delft University of Technology and a Medical Delta Professor at Erasmus Medical Center.
You are more than welcome to join this celebration, please register here.
Date and time: Friday October 11, 2024, 15:00h. Reception 16:00h.
Location: Aula Congress Centre (Auditorium/3rd floor), Mekelweg 5, Delft.
Prof. dr. ir. Jan-Carel Diehl is a project board-member of the ESCH-R project. He is also the workpackage leader for WP 5 “What we create: Co-creation with stakeholders in Living Labs in Medical Centers”.
The objectives for this workpackage are:
- To establish two Living Labs: One in EMC and one in UMCU, each existing of a Co-Creation Living Lab in combination with three Clinical Living Labs.
- To identify at least twelve environmental hotspots within the Clinical Living Labs which can be used as an intervention case to demonstrate opportunities for circular interventions for medical consumables.
- To co-analyse the twelve cases and co-create circular interventions to enable circularity in the hospital itself and in the value chain.
- To co-validate the developed circular interventions in both the Clinical Living Labs and with value chain stakeholders like industry and waste processors.
- To construct a circular design approach (design standards and tools) for driving circularity in manufacturing, use in hospitals and end of life management of medical consumables.
