Christiane Hagel

DPhil, Clinical Medicine

I am a health systems and policy researcher with the Health Systems Collaborative at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, committed to enhancing health systems and improving quality of care. I combine a passion for digital health interventions and innovations with scientific curiosity and a multidisciplinary background in law and public health. Before joining the University of Oxford, I worked as a scientific consultant supporting medical informatics projects in Germany commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Health and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. During my Master of Public Health at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, I conducted social network analyses to inform organisational research collaborations, and subsequently worked with the Pandemic and Epidemic Disease Management team of the World Health Organization (WHO).

My research covers digital health technologies and how these need to be designed to improve quality of care and benefit health systems. This includes to learn how technologies realistically can be introduced for widespread adoption, scalability, and long-term sustainability. With my DPhil, I look at how more rapidly available dashboards may enable the use of data-driven performance feedback at multiple levels of the health system in Kenya and other LMICs, and how these interventions help to improve quality of neonatal hospital care. With a mixed-methods and human-centred design approach, my work contributes to improving the design and implementation processes of digital health tools so that they align with different user needs and contexts.

I am the President of the Oxford FemTech Society and was chairing the inaugural FemTech conference in Oxford under the umbrella of Green Templeton’s annual Human Welfare Conference. I am committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), and to raising awareness of invisible physical illnesses and disabilities. During my time at Oxford, I learned rowing and have since become an active member of the Green Templeton Boat Club.

Contact: christiane.hagel@gtc.ox.ac.uk