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| The new life with Gerontechnology
Professor Teh Pei-Lee Professor Teh Pei-Lee is the Head of the Department of Management at the School of Business and the Director of Gerontechnology Laboratory at Monash University Malaysia. She is passionate to drive research on how technology transforms business processes and organisations and on a vast spectrum of impacts on people's lives and society at large. Dr Teh has taken a solid initiative to develop the area of Gerontechnology in Malaysia. She founded the Gerontechnology Laboratory in Monash University Malaysia in 2016, the first of its kind in Malaysia. Under her leadership, the Gerontechnology Laboratory successfully hosted the first and only Gerontechnology Symposium (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) and Gerontechnology Challenge (2018) in Asia, brought together academia, industry, government, and NGOs to speak about the amalgamation of geriatrics and technology. The Gerontechnology Laboratory was chosen to highlight the AACSB ICAM "2019 Innovations That Inspire" challenge. Her research profile is interdisciplinary. Her work appears in top-tier journals. Her research has received the backing of local and international public and private institutions, with more than RM10 million grants. She is also an Associate Editor for three journals: Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Gerontechnology Journal, and International Journal of Electronic Business. |
| The power of human-centred design for digital healthDr Jessica Watterson Dr Jessica Watterson is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Health at Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. Her research focuses on the design and evaluation of digital health technologies, particularly for underserved populations. Her previous research has included studies on text messaging programs to help low-income, Latinx patients with diabetes better manage their health and encourage pregnant women in Samoa to attend antenatal care. |