U101 AL to win British Medical Journal Innovation Award 2018

We are proud to say that Dr Liliana Rodriguez, AL at the Open University and teaching on our U101 module, has received the prestigious British Medical JournalInnovation Award 2018.

She took part in a collaborative research project with colleagues from the Brighton and Sussex Medical school. The project was funded by Public Health England (PHE). Her team included HIV expert Dr Jaime Vera (BSMS), Dr Gillian Dean (BSMS), Dr Suneeta Soni(BSMS), Dr Carrie Llewellyn (BSMS), and Dr Carlos Peralta (UofB) and Lili as the designers and researchers.

They developed a distribution system of HIV self-test kits through vending machines, and on Thursday 10th May 2018 they were announced as the winners of the BMJ (British Medical Journal) 2018 Innovation Award. There were 3500 applicants overall in 15 categories. Each category had six finalists and one winner. The BMJ Awards, now in their 10th year, are the UK’s premier medical awards programme, recognising and celebrating the inspirational work done by doctors and their teams. Organised by the BMJ, one of the world’s great medical journals, the awards reflect its mission to improve patient outcomes and showcase the very best healthcare in the UK.

So far, they have published the results of our project in three main HIV international conferences/publications (CROI in Boston, BHIVA in Edinburgh & BASSH in Belfast) and soon in the design for Health 2018 Conference in Sheffield. The project will also be included in the Compendium of Good HIV Practices in the WHO European Region.

The team is also currently developing other two related projects, a campaign to increase HIV testing in GP practices, and a campaign to eliminate HIV stigma involving digital platforms.

Lili is collaborating as a designer, researcher and as a project manager in the later project.

 


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