prof. dr. Teun Zuiderent-Jerak

Full Professor, Faculty of Science, Athena Institute

Full Professor, Network Institute

Full Professor, Amsterdam Public Health, APH - Global Health

Full Professor, Amsterdam Public Health, APH - Quality of Care

Personal information

Teun Zuiderent-Jerak is Professor of Transdisciplinary Science & Technology Studies. His research brings together intervening in practices and furthering scholarly understanding of them. Knowledge standardization, evidence-basing, global health, health care markets, and technologies for inclusion are among his interests.

Research

Additional responsibilities:

President elect of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
Director of the Netherlands Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC)

Situated Intervention / STS Making & Doing

Watch the 8 minute Athena Transformation Journey, the 3-minute mini keynote at 4S 2014 the 5-minute movie on STS Making & Doing on the research I do and want to help foster.

In my research, I draw together two activities that are often seen as belonging to different realms: intervening in practices and furthering scholarly understanding of them.

I consider intervening in health care practices as a mode of scholarly knowledge production and as a method for putting both scholarly and normative attachments at risk. Situated Intervention (MIT Press 2015), the theory/method package I've developed for such work, draws upon understandings of healthcare- and medical knowledge practices that stem from my training in Science & Technology Studies (STS) while equally putting such understandings to the test. The work on STS Making & Doing (MIT Press 2021, with Gary Downey) helps to provide a space where the scholarship of transforming practices through techniques, devices, infrastructures, and selves is moved to center stage.

My research focuses broadly on transdisciplinary social studies of health care and medicine and includes the study of evidence appraisal in relation to different knowledges, knowledge standardization and health care improvement, and technology development for inclusive health and employment.

From 2017-2020 I served as a member of Council of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and I am heavily involved with its STS Making and Doing program.

Teaching

Transdisciplinary Global Health / Science and Technology for Inclusion

Watch this movie (4 minutes) for a short introduction into my involvement in the research master Global Health and the course on Global Health Interventions.

I serve as Program Director of the research master Global Health, a 2-year program that trains students in transdisciplinary global health research.

Within this program I coordinate an intensive course on Global Health Interventions, in which students design an intervention and evaluation for a global health issue, and reflect deeply on how these two relate.

Every year I supervise a number of research internships, often including projects in collaboration with a number of NGOs, especially in India.

Together with a committed team, I led the development of the specialisation track on Sustainable Health and Healthcare (Duurzame Gezondheid en Zorg) within the bachelor Health & Life sciences (Gezondheid en Leven).

Furthermore, I lecture in courses on Challenges in Sustainable Health and Health Care, Managing Science & Technology in Society, Management of Innovation in Community Based Healthcare, International Public Health, and others.

Prizes and Awards

The 2022 Amsterdamska Award by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) for the anthology: Downey, Gary Lee & Teun Zuiderent-Jerak (2021). Making & Doing: Activating STS through Knowledge Expression and Travel. Cambridge, MA: The MIT press.

Finalist for the 2022 Diana Forsythe Award by the Awards Committee and People and Organizational Issues Working Group of the of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) for the paper:
Goedhart, Nicole, Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Joey Woudstra, Jacqueline Broerse, Afke Wieke Betten, Christine Dedding (2021). Persistent inequitable design and implementation of patient portals for users at the margins. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 28(2):276-283.

The 2021 Samantha Adams ELSI Best Paper Award by the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) for the paper:
Goedhart, Nicole, Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Joey Woudstra, Jacqueline Broerse, Afke Wieke Betten, Christine Dedding (2021). Persistent inequitable design and implementation of patient portals for users at the margins. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 28(2):276-283.

A 2020 STS Making & Doing award by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), awarded to Nicole Goedhart, Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Christine Dedding and Jacqueline Broerse for the contribution ‘Learning while doing: vlogs about digital inequality’.

The 2019 Teacher of the year award of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

The 2016 STS Infrastructures award by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) awarded to the Graduate Research School Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC). Acknowledging the work of many, Teun Zuiderent-Jerak served as curriculum coordinator (2010-2014).

One of the four 2014 Research Fellow grants in the Future Research Leaders program of Linköping University (SEK9M/€1M).

The 2007 Nicholas C. Mullins Award by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) for "an outstanding piece of scholarship by a graduate student in the field of Science and Technology Studies" for a paper later published as Zuiderent-Jerak, Teun (2009). Competition in the wild; reconfiguring healthcare markets. In: Social Studies of Science, 39(5) pg. 765–792.

Ancillary activities