IES - Biomedical Engineering:- Digital Integration of Medical Diagnostics into Connected Healthcare
20th October 2026 6:30 pm
Prof Cooper and his team are developing new digital health platforms that combine rapid, low-cost diagnostic testing with blockchain-secured communication, deep-learning analytics, and AI-driven diagnostic decision support or after epidemic preparedness in under-served rural settings in East Africa. These technologies enable real-time integration of community-generated health data into regional and national surveillance systems, strengthening both local care delivery and broader epidemic preparedness.
Professor Cooper will also show, how, by working with Google, how these same tools may be linked with meteorological and environmental data to better understand how pollution and climate change are influencing the distribution and incidence of both non-communicable and infectious diseases. This is especially important for vector-borne diseases, where rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns are altering mosquito habitats and expanding the geographic range of malaria and arboviruses such as dengue and chikungunya into previously unaffected regions.
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Professor Jon Cooper, FREng, FRSE, holds The Wolfson Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Glasgow and a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Global Health. His major research interests are in medical diagnostics and digital health. He has worked extensively in East Africa developing new low-cost diagnostics and their integration through mobile communications into national and regional electronic records systems
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