India Read joins ETLab
India Read has joined the Emerging Technologies Research Lab as a PhD Candidate in the Health Futures research program, focusing on the exploration of codesigned health futures and development of a model that fosters and reinforces impactful stakeholder-driven, human-centred healthcare innovation. Her practice-based research will be conducted through redesigning the delivery of immunoglobulin as part of the NHMRC-funded OPTIMAL Centre for Research Excellence.
We are pleased to announce that India Read has joined the Emerging Technologies Research Lab as a PhD Candidate in the Health Futures research program, led by A/Prof Leah Heiss, the Eva and Marc Besen International Research Chair in Design. India brings deep expertise in practicing human-centered design to support organisations across various sectors including health, government, finance, and higher education to innovate to better meet the needs of their stakeholders.
India’s PhD is generously supported by the NHMRC-funded OPTIMAL Centre for Research Excellence for improving immunoglobulin use and clinical outcomes. Using the CRE’s Immunoglobulin Redesign project as a case study, her research will explore codesigned health futures and systems, and develop a model that fosters and reinforces impactful stakeholder-driven, human-centred healthcare innovation.
Immunoglobulin is a precious plasma-derived product and the most significant line item in the federal government’s blood budget, costing over $100 million each year. As demand continues to rise, designing better systems for its delivery is essential. The OPTIMAL CRE brings together patients, leading researchers, health professionals and health economists to generate the new knowledge and research capacity required to design, build and implement better systems for delivering immunoglobulin therapy.
India will be supervised by A/Prof Leah Heiss, alongside Prof Erica Wood AO and Dr Catriona Parker from the Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine’s Transfusion Research Unit.
“India’s Phd will be an amazing contribution to knowledge; she brings deep industry experience and expertise, and will be embedded as a collaborator in a major multi-disciplinary health research project. This is an opportunity to establish a significant body of work that can inform system-level change in healthcare."- Associate Professor Leah Heiss, Eva and Marc Besen International Research Chair in Design, Chair of the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards