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Health

How engineering can improve public health, from pandemic response to improving healthcare systems

Policy publications

Access Academy policy reports and documentation in our library.

Policy publications

Infection resilient environments

A two-phase programme of work on infection resilient environments commissioned by the Government Chief Scientific Adviser. The programme sets out to understand how to overcome the barriers to infection resilience.

Infection resilient environments

Air quality

The result of two virtual roundtables convened by the Chief Medical Officer. The first explored transport solutions to reduce air pollution and the second focused on solutions for the built environment.

Air Quality

COVID-19

Advice on: role of engineering in a pandemic, risks and opportunities highlighted by the engineering profession, engineering controls that can limit transmission in different environments and implications for research and development. 

COVID-19

Engineering Better Care

A joint project between the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians. Exploring how a systems engineering approach could be applied to health and social care.

Engineering better care

Safe Technologies for Health and Care

Including work on cybersecurity of medical devices, regulating health apps, and efficacy of medical devices and systems and a sectoral deep dive in the safety and ethics of autonomous systems project.

Safe technologies for health and care

Through the National Engineering Policy Centre, the Academy also hosts a healthcare policy topic group which provides a consultative forum for emerging policy issues.

For more information about this subject, please contact NEPC team.

nepc@raeng.org.uk

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