Luisa Marelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 316712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luisa Marelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Marelli |
| SIGNATURE | MARELLI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3960-0033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Selective visibility in datafied states: Examining the absence and presence of the European Health Data Space
A qualitative comparison of data infrastructures for Covid-19 health-related data: Lessons for the European Health Data Space
The COVID-19 pandemic has represented the first global health emergency to be tackled through widespread data collection via a broad array of digital health technologies. Throughout Europe, data infrastructures for the acquisition, processing, and management of COVID-19 data were either implemented ex novo or “repurposed” towards this end. Analysing and comparing these data practices may hold great value to the upcoming European Health Data Space…
Anticipating ethical and social dimensions of the European Health Data Space: A rapid systematic review
What Role for Cities in the EU Green Deal? Analysis of Policy Framework, Interlinkages and Contribution to the 2030 Agenda
Urban environments are at the forefront of the European Union (EU) climate ambitions as envisaged by the European Green Deal (EGD). Cities are also central to delivering most of the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, EU cities face severe implementation challenges in operationalising the EGD and SDGs. This research aims to support EU cities in implementing the EGD by providing a coherent framework, aligning green transitio…
Performing publics of science in the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal
Research about science and publics in the COVID-19 pandemic often focuses on public trust and on identifying and correcting public attitudes. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 209 residents in six countries—Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal—this article uses the concept of performativity to explore how participants understand, and relate to science, in the COVID-19 context. By performativity, we mean the ways by which pa…
Weaving EU digital health policy into national healthcare practices. The making of a reimbursement standard for digital health technologies in Belgium
Fast‐tracking development and regulatory approval of Covid‐19 vaccines in the EU: A review of ethical implications
The rapid spread of SARS‐CoV‐2 worldwide has triggered intense activity in the field of biotechnology, leading to the development and regulatory approval of multiple COVID‐19 vaccines in less than 1 year while raising sustained scrutiny as to the ethical issues associated with this process. This article pursues a twofold objective. First, it reconstructs and provides a thorough overview of the different steps, from clinical trial design to regula…
The European health data space: Too big to succeed
Solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from a nine-country interview study in Europe
Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know little about how people have thought of and practised solidarity in their everyday lives since the beginning of the pandemic. What role does solidarity play in people's lives, how does it relate to COVID-19 public health measures and how has it changed in different phases of the pandemic? Situated within the medical humanities at the in…
The Italian debate on the digital Covid certificate: Co-producing epistemic and normative rationalities
Italy's digital Covid certificate, known nationally as the ‘Green Pass,’ was enforced through unusual restrictions for a liberal democracy, as part of the government's effort to bolster the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. Since July 2021, the Green Pass provided the main authorizing tool for the public to access a wide spectrum of social spaces and activities, from leisure to public transport and from education to workplaces. The Green Pass theref…
Anticipating hopes, fears and expectations towards Covid-19 vaccines: A qualitative interview study in seven European countries
Vaccine uptake is essential to managing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccine hesitancy is a persistent concern. At the same time, both decision-makers and the general population have high hopes for COVID-19 vaccination. Drawing from qualitative interview data collected in October 2020 as part of the pan-European SolPan study, this study explores early and anticipatory expectations, hopes and fears regarding COVID-19 vaccination across seven…
Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the Covid-19 pandemic
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses the origin, design, and execution of the SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative research project that sought to respond to the need for knowledge among researchers and policymakers in times of crisis. The form of organization as a research commons is characterized …
The FDA’s standard-making process for medical digital health technologies: Co-producing technological and organizational innovation
Covid-19 and techno-solutionism: Responsibilization without contextualization
Since the onset of the pandemic, and underpinned by often promissory undertones in policy discourse, an array of technological solutions have come to be regarded as privileged modes of intervention to curb the spread of COVID-19. Yet all too often the policies around COVID technologies have suffered from a spectrum of shortcomings or ‘fallacies’ (Jasanoff et al., 2021), which, notwithstanding the distinctiveness of each country’s policies, have c…
The Role of US Policymaking in the Emergence of a Digital Health Assemblage
Promising to improve the quality of care while decreasing healthcare costs, digital health technologies (DHT) are welcomed as a solution to the challenges increasingly faced by healthcare systems in the global north. In recent years, tech developers, consultants, policymakers, and researchers in the US have heralded Big Tech entrepreneurs as driving the emergence of these technologies. However, apart from Silicon Valley visions of DHT, there are …
The translational lag narrative in policy discourse in the United States and the European Union: A comparative study
Whilst basic science rapidly produces new insights into the biological determinants of human health and disease, clinical innovation is often said to lag behind, as it fails to rapidly turn such knowledge into new tools for innovative patient care. This view of biomedical innovation constitutes a ‘translational lag narrative’, which is widely present in current research policy. This paper presents a qualitative content analysis of a corpus of doc…
Normative positions towards Covid-19 contact-tracing apps: Findings from a large-scale qualitative study in nine European countries
Mobile applications for digital contact tracing have been developed and introduced around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposed as a tool to support 'traditional' forms of contact-tracing carried out to monitor contagion, these apps have triggered an intense debate with respect to their legal and ethical permissibility, social desirability and general feasibility. Based on a large-scale study including qualitative data from 349…
Big Tech platforms in health research: Re-purposing big data governance in light of the General Data Protection Regulation's research exemption
The emergence of a global industry of digital health platforms operated by Big Tech corporations, and its growing entanglements with academic and pharmaceutical research networks, raise pressing questions on the capacity of current data governance models, regulatory and legal frameworks to safeguard the sustainability of the health research ecosystem. In this article, we direct our attention toward the challenges faced by the European General Dat…
Fit for purpose? The GDPR and the governance of European digital health
The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 served as the cornerstone of the new data governance regime of the European Union. Informed by principles and values such as privacy, accountability, transparency, and fairness, the GDPR is premised on the objective to balance the protection of individual privacy and the promotion of a thriving European data economy. Still, shortcomings of this regulatory effort have been n…
Bioconstitutional Imaginaries and the Comparative Politics of Genetic Self-knowledge
Genetic testing has become a vehicle through which basic constitutional relationships between citizens and the state are revisited, reaffirmed, or rearticulated. The interplay between the is of genetic knowledge and the ought of government unfolds in the context of diverse imaginaries of the forms of human well-being, freedom, and flourishing that states have a duty to support. This article examines how the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United…
Research Misconduct in the Age of Open Science: The Case of STAP Stem Cells
In early 2014, Dr Haruko Obokata and her co-authors caused a global media storm by publishing two scientific papers in Nature on stem cells. The papers proposed a surprisingly simple new method called stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) to generate pluripotent stem cells for research purposes in a fast and inexpensive way. To the dismay of many, both papers were retracted within six months of their release due to data fabricatio…
Fit for purpose? The GDPR and the governance of European digital health
The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 served as the cornerstone of the new data governance regime of the European Union. Informed by principles and values such as privacy, accountability, transparency, and fairness, the GDPR is premised on the objective to balance the protection of individual privacy and the promotion of a thriving European data economy. Still, shortcomings of this regulatory effort have been n…
Solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from a nine-country interview study in Europe
Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know little about how people have thought of and practised solidarity in their everyday lives since the beginning of the pandemic. What role does solidarity play in people's lives, how does it relate to COVID-19 public health measures and how has it changed in different phases of the pandemic? Situated within the medical humanities at the in…
What Role for Cities in the EU Green Deal? Analysis of Policy Framework, Interlinkages and Contribution to the 2030 Agenda
Urban environments are at the forefront of the European Union (EU) climate ambitions as envisaged by the European Green Deal (EGD). Cities are also central to delivering most of the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, EU cities face severe implementation challenges in operationalising the EGD and SDGs. This research aims to support EU cities in implementing the EGD by providing a coherent framework, aligning green transitio…
The Role of US Policymaking in the Emergence of a Digital Health Assemblage
Promising to improve the quality of care while decreasing healthcare costs, digital health technologies (DHT) are welcomed as a solution to the challenges increasingly faced by healthcare systems in the global north. In recent years, tech developers, consultants, policymakers, and researchers in the US have heralded Big Tech entrepreneurs as driving the emergence of these technologies. However, apart from Silicon Valley visions of DHT, there are …
Bioconstitutional Imaginaries and the Comparative Politics of Genetic Self-knowledge
Genetic testing has become a vehicle through which basic constitutional relationships between citizens and the state are revisited, reaffirmed, or rearticulated. The interplay between the is of genetic knowledge and the ought of government unfolds in the context of diverse imaginaries of the forms of human well-being, freedom, and flourishing that states have a duty to support. This article examines how the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United…
A qualitative comparison of data infrastructures for Covid-19 health-related data: Lessons for the European Health Data Space
The COVID-19 pandemic has represented the first global health emergency to be tackled through widespread data collection via a broad array of digital health technologies. Throughout Europe, data infrastructures for the acquisition, processing, and management of COVID-19 data were either implemented ex novo or “repurposed” towards this end. Analysing and comparing these data practices may hold great value to the upcoming European Health Data Space…
The Italian debate on the digital Covid certificate: Co-producing epistemic and normative rationalities
Italy's digital Covid certificate, known nationally as the ‘Green Pass,’ was enforced through unusual restrictions for a liberal democracy, as part of the government's effort to bolster the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. Since July 2021, the Green Pass provided the main authorizing tool for the public to access a wide spectrum of social spaces and activities, from leisure to public transport and from education to workplaces. The Green Pass theref…
Big Tech platforms in health research: Re-purposing big data governance in light of the General Data Protection Regulation's research exemption
The emergence of a global industry of digital health platforms operated by Big Tech corporations, and its growing entanglements with academic and pharmaceutical research networks, raise pressing questions on the capacity of current data governance models, regulatory and legal frameworks to safeguard the sustainability of the health research ecosystem. In this article, we direct our attention toward the challenges faced by the European General Dat…
Research Misconduct in the Age of Open Science: The Case of STAP Stem Cells
In early 2014, Dr Haruko Obokata and her co-authors caused a global media storm by publishing two scientific papers in Nature on stem cells. The papers proposed a surprisingly simple new method called stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) to generate pluripotent stem cells for research purposes in a fast and inexpensive way. To the dismay of many, both papers were retracted within six months of their release due to data fabricatio…
Fit for purpose? The GDPR and the governance of European digital health
The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 served as the cornerstone of the new data governance regime of the European Union. Informed by principles and values such as privacy, accountability, transparency, and fairness, the GDPR is premised on the objective to balance the protection of individual privacy and the promotion of a thriving European data economy. Still, shortcomings of this regulatory effort have been n…
Bioconstitutional Imaginaries and the Comparative Politics of Genetic Self-knowledge
Genetic testing has become a vehicle through which basic constitutional relationships between citizens and the state are revisited, reaffirmed, or rearticulated. The interplay between the is of genetic knowledge and the ought of government unfolds in the context of diverse imaginaries of the forms of human well-being, freedom, and flourishing that states have a duty to support. This article examines how the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United…
The translational lag narrative in policy discourse in the United States and the European Union: A comparative study
Whilst basic science rapidly produces new insights into the biological determinants of human health and disease, clinical innovation is often said to lag behind, as it fails to rapidly turn such knowledge into new tools for innovative patient care. This view of biomedical innovation constitutes a ‘translational lag narrative’, which is widely present in current research policy. This paper presents a qualitative content analysis of a corpus of doc…
Normative positions towards Covid-19 contact-tracing apps: Findings from a large-scale qualitative study in nine European countries
Mobile applications for digital contact tracing have been developed and introduced around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposed as a tool to support 'traditional' forms of contact-tracing carried out to monitor contagion, these apps have triggered an intense debate with respect to their legal and ethical permissibility, social desirability and general feasibility. Based on a large-scale study including qualitative data from 349…
Big Tech platforms in health research: Re-purposing big data governance in light of the General Data Protection Regulation's research exemption
The emergence of a global industry of digital health platforms operated by Big Tech corporations, and its growing entanglements with academic and pharmaceutical research networks, raise pressing questions on the capacity of current data governance models, regulatory and legal frameworks to safeguard the sustainability of the health research ecosystem. In this article, we direct our attention toward the challenges faced by the European General Dat…
Anticipating hopes, fears and expectations towards Covid-19 vaccines: A qualitative interview study in seven European countries
Vaccine uptake is essential to managing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccine hesitancy is a persistent concern. At the same time, both decision-makers and the general population have high hopes for COVID-19 vaccination. Drawing from qualitative interview data collected in October 2020 as part of the pan-European SolPan study, this study explores early and anticipatory expectations, hopes and fears regarding COVID-19 vaccination across seven…
Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the Covid-19 pandemic
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses the origin, design, and execution of the SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative research project that sought to respond to the need for knowledge among researchers and policymakers in times of crisis. The form of organization as a research commons is characterized …
The FDA’s standard-making process for medical digital health technologies: Co-producing technological and organizational innovation
Covid-19 and techno-solutionism: Responsibilization without contextualization
Since the onset of the pandemic, and underpinned by often promissory undertones in policy discourse, an array of technological solutions have come to be regarded as privileged modes of intervention to curb the spread of COVID-19. Yet all too often the policies around COVID technologies have suffered from a spectrum of shortcomings or ‘fallacies’ (Jasanoff et al., 2021), which, notwithstanding the distinctiveness of each country’s policies, have c…
The Role of US Policymaking in the Emergence of a Digital Health Assemblage
Promising to improve the quality of care while decreasing healthcare costs, digital health technologies (DHT) are welcomed as a solution to the challenges increasingly faced by healthcare systems in the global north. In recent years, tech developers, consultants, policymakers, and researchers in the US have heralded Big Tech entrepreneurs as driving the emergence of these technologies. However, apart from Silicon Valley visions of DHT, there are …
Fast‐tracking development and regulatory approval of Covid‐19 vaccines in the EU: A review of ethical implications
The rapid spread of SARS‐CoV‐2 worldwide has triggered intense activity in the field of biotechnology, leading to the development and regulatory approval of multiple COVID‐19 vaccines in less than 1 year while raising sustained scrutiny as to the ethical issues associated with this process. This article pursues a twofold objective. First, it reconstructs and provides a thorough overview of the different steps, from clinical trial design to regula…
The European health data space: Too big to succeed
Solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from a nine-country interview study in Europe
Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know little about how people have thought of and practised solidarity in their everyday lives since the beginning of the pandemic. What role does solidarity play in people's lives, how does it relate to COVID-19 public health measures and how has it changed in different phases of the pandemic? Situated within the medical humanities at the in…
The Italian debate on the digital Covid certificate: Co-producing epistemic and normative rationalities
Italy's digital Covid certificate, known nationally as the ‘Green Pass,’ was enforced through unusual restrictions for a liberal democracy, as part of the government's effort to bolster the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. Since July 2021, the Green Pass provided the main authorizing tool for the public to access a wide spectrum of social spaces and activities, from leisure to public transport and from education to workplaces. The Green Pass theref…
Performing publics of science in the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal
Research about science and publics in the COVID-19 pandemic often focuses on public trust and on identifying and correcting public attitudes. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 209 residents in six countries—Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal—this article uses the concept of performativity to explore how participants understand, and relate to science, in the COVID-19 context. By performativity, we mean the ways by which pa…
Weaving EU digital health policy into national healthcare practices. The making of a reimbursement standard for digital health technologies in Belgium
Anticipating ethical and social dimensions of the European Health Data Space: A rapid systematic review
What Role for Cities in the EU Green Deal? Analysis of Policy Framework, Interlinkages and Contribution to the 2030 Agenda
Urban environments are at the forefront of the European Union (EU) climate ambitions as envisaged by the European Green Deal (EGD). Cities are also central to delivering most of the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, EU cities face severe implementation challenges in operationalising the EGD and SDGs. This research aims to support EU cities in implementing the EGD by providing a coherent framework, aligning green transitio…
Selective visibility in datafied states: Examining the absence and presence of the European Health Data Space
A qualitative comparison of data infrastructures for Covid-19 health-related data: Lessons for the European Health Data Space
The COVID-19 pandemic has represented the first global health emergency to be tackled through widespread data collection via a broad array of digital health technologies. Throughout Europe, data infrastructures for the acquisition, processing, and management of COVID-19 data were either implemented ex novo or “repurposed” towards this end. Analysing and comparing these data practices may hold great value to the upcoming European Health Data Space…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Social science (6 works)