Tania Douglas

Tania Douglas was a Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Her research covered medical innovation, image analysis and the development of technologies to improve medical device innovation in South Africa. She was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Global Health Innovation, a journal that disseminates research about health innovation in developing settings. She died of cancer in March 2021.

Her TED talk from 2018, To design better tech, understand context, argues that technology works better when it is designed for the setting in which it will be used. It is filed under context-driven design, user research, health, medicine and artificial intelligence.