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Global health social technologies: reflections on evolving theories and landscapes
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posted on 2023-06-09, 03:54 authored by Joanna Chataway, Rebecca Hanlin, Julius Mugwagwa, Lois MuraguriThis paper has two core purposes. First, building on Nelson and Sampat's work, we outline the social technology conceptual framework and explain why we favour using it to explore two global health initiatives. Second, we discuss the evolution of those initiatives through the lens of the interaction between social technologies, physical technologies and general institutions. Thus we reflect both on evolving conceptual landscapes on the one hand and organisational and institutional terrains on the other. The first section of the paper presents an intellectual journey and outlines our understanding and adoption of the social technology conceptual framework. This framework we argue has a number of advantages over alternative theoretical approaches and perspectives. The second section describes the context in which product development partnerships (PDPs), a type of global health initiative based on a public-private partnership (PPP), have arisen. The third section develops case studies of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and the Malaria Vaccines Initiative (MVI) as social technology experiments and looks at the complex dynamics between organisation, management, scientific and R&D success and general institutional environments. We look at these social technologies as having 'integrator' and 'broker' roles; classifications which we argue are useful in analysing the different roles taken on by these PDPs. In the conclusion we reflect on the useful ways in which the concept of social technologies can shed light on complex and networked initiatives.
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- Published
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Research PolicyISSN
0048-7333Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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10Volume
39Page range
1277-1288Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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- Yes
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2016-11-07Usage metrics
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AIDS vaccineComplex dynamicsConceptual frameworksDevelopment partnershipsGlobal healthMalaria vaccineNeglected diseaseProduct development partnershipsPublic private partnershipsSocial technologyTechnology experimentsTheoretical approachThrough the lensHealthMergers and acquisitionsProduct developmentSocieties and institutionsTechnology
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