Though only a small percentage of the global population has contracted COVID-19, entire populations are – and will continue to be – affected by it. In other words: we face not merely a health challenge –but also a slew of economic, political and social ones.
Individuals, societies and economies are being dragged into entirely new – and tumultuous – futures, testing existing structures, practices and capacities.
Shoulder-to-shoulder with medical innovators who race towards vaccines and treatment options for the health challenge, the RMIT-Cisco Health Transformation Lab is rapidly mobilising to explore and solve the social and economic ones. This pandemic is transforming what is being demanded of the citizen in radical ways.
By understanding the transformation of the citizen across key dimensions, the Lab is developing insights, tools and initiatives that address the social, economic and systemic fallouts – and opportunities – from this unprecedented global health event.
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Professor Vishaal Kishore on Channel 10 News First Melbourne about Medistay’s work during COVID-19.
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