René Umlauf
Biographic Data
| ID | 179386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | René Umlauf |
| GIVEN NAMES | René |
| FAMILY NAME | Umlauf |
| SIGNATURE | UMLAUF R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Robert Koch Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Listening to the Voices of Health Care Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In their daily practice, health care workers (HCWs) experience the effects of tensions between professional ethos and work realities, which can lead to ethical dilemmas. We aim to explore the ethical dilemmas that affected HCWs in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic and to understand these in the context of the German health system. Between April and December 2022, we interviewed HCWs from various levels of care and key informants responsible fo…
Where is the bottleneck? Drones and the paradoxes of digitising medical supplies in Ghana's landscapes of care
Implemented in several African countries, medical drones have emerged as a major infrastructural innovation in national healthcare systems and are widely hailed for improving, if not revolutionising, access to medicine and care for rural populations. Being based on digitally driven, autonomous aviation systems, drones are part of wider efforts to use digital technologies in health systems. In this article, we explore the paradoxes that emerge fro…
Infrastructure-as-a-service
In this article, we draw on the case of experimental drone uses in African health care systems in order to explore how diverse actors use digital innovation to stimulate critical changes in infrastructural provision and the ways in which the global role of places such as Silicon Valley, Rwanda, and Ghana, as well as their connections, are configured in such processes. Developing the idea of 'infrastructure-as-service' as a concept, we suggest tha…
Stock-outs! Improvisations and processes of infrastructuring in Uganda’s HIV/Aids and malaria programmes
This paper examines the stock-outs of medicines and diagnostic devices in Uganda. Our aim is to trace and compare interruptions in the supply of antiretrovirals and Rapid Diagnostic Tests in order to provide an ethnographic account of the complex role that improvisations play within global health infrastructures. We will argue that the fragmented and mobile infrastructures of these key global health technologies require and necessitate improvisat…
Precarity and Preparedness
Access to anti-malarial drugs is increasingly governed by novel regulation technologies like rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs). However, high rates of non-adherence particularly to negative RDT results have been reported, threatening the cost-effectiveness of the two interrelated goals of improving diagnosis and reducing the over-prescription of expensive anti-malarial drugs. Below I set out to reconstruct prior treatment forms like presumptive treat…
Infrastructure-as-a-service
In this article, we draw on the case of experimental drone uses in African health care systems in order to explore how diverse actors use digital innovation to stimulate critical changes in infrastructural provision and the ways in which the global role of places such as Silicon Valley, Rwanda, and Ghana, as well as their connections, are configured in such processes. Developing the idea of 'infrastructure-as-service' as a concept, we suggest tha…
Precarity and Preparedness
Access to anti-malarial drugs is increasingly governed by novel regulation technologies like rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs). However, high rates of non-adherence particularly to negative RDT results have been reported, threatening the cost-effectiveness of the two interrelated goals of improving diagnosis and reducing the over-prescription of expensive anti-malarial drugs. Below I set out to reconstruct prior treatment forms like presumptive treat…
Listening to the Voices of Health Care Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In their daily practice, health care workers (HCWs) experience the effects of tensions between professional ethos and work realities, which can lead to ethical dilemmas. We aim to explore the ethical dilemmas that affected HCWs in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic and to understand these in the context of the German health system. Between April and December 2022, we interviewed HCWs from various levels of care and key informants responsible fo…
Stock-outs! Improvisations and processes of infrastructuring in Uganda’s HIV/Aids and malaria programmes
This paper examines the stock-outs of medicines and diagnostic devices in Uganda. Our aim is to trace and compare interruptions in the supply of antiretrovirals and Rapid Diagnostic Tests in order to provide an ethnographic account of the complex role that improvisations play within global health infrastructures. We will argue that the fragmented and mobile infrastructures of these key global health technologies require and necessitate improvisat…
Precarity and Preparedness
Access to anti-malarial drugs is increasingly governed by novel regulation technologies like rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs). However, high rates of non-adherence particularly to negative RDT results have been reported, threatening the cost-effectiveness of the two interrelated goals of improving diagnosis and reducing the over-prescription of expensive anti-malarial drugs. Below I set out to reconstruct prior treatment forms like presumptive treat…
Infrastructure-as-a-service
In this article, we draw on the case of experimental drone uses in African health care systems in order to explore how diverse actors use digital innovation to stimulate critical changes in infrastructural provision and the ways in which the global role of places such as Silicon Valley, Rwanda, and Ghana, as well as their connections, are configured in such processes. Developing the idea of 'infrastructure-as-service' as a concept, we suggest tha…
Where is the bottleneck? Drones and the paradoxes of digitising medical supplies in Ghana's landscapes of care
Implemented in several African countries, medical drones have emerged as a major infrastructural innovation in national healthcare systems and are widely hailed for improving, if not revolutionising, access to medicine and care for rural populations. Being based on digitally driven, autonomous aviation systems, drones are part of wider efforts to use digital technologies in health systems. In this article, we explore the paradoxes that emerge fro…
Listening to the Voices of Health Care Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In their daily practice, health care workers (HCWs) experience the effects of tensions between professional ethos and work realities, which can lead to ethical dilemmas. We aim to explore the ethical dilemmas that affected HCWs in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic and to understand these in the context of the German health system. Between April and December 2022, we interviewed HCWs from various levels of care and key informants responsible fo…
Political science (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Drone (2 works)