Research Groups of Health Sciences and Technology Research Unit

HST is the most multidisciplinary research unit in University of Oulu, which provides unique potential in addressing research questions by a comprehensive setting.
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Research Groups

We conduct research under four spearheads:

  • Medical Bioengineering and Smart Diagnostics & Treatments for Effective Patient Care
  • Intelligent & Evidence-based Healthcare Innovations
  • Human-centered Health and Wellbeing
  • Sustainable Management & Competence Development

Our research groups under these domains are listed below.

Medical Bioengineering and Smart Diagnostics & Treatments for Effective Patient Care

Diagnostics of Osteoarthritis (DIOS)

Medical Imaging in Diagnostics, Algorithms and Software (MIDAS)

Oulu Functional Neuroimaging - OFNI

Oulu Medical Imaging and Simulations group (OMIAS)

Research Group of Medical Physics in Radiotherapy

Wearables for population health

Intelligent &​ Evidence-Based ​Healthcare​ Innovations

Intelligent Medical Systems (IMEDS)

Myllylä Group

The Jianan Lab of Nanophotonic Biosensors

Human-centered ​Health and​ Wellbeing

Adherence to self-care and healthy lifestyles (Adherence)

Biomarkers and Immunometabolism in Musculoskeletal Health and Ageing

Client/patient counselling in clinical environment (Counselling)

Digital and Mental Wellbeing (DigiWellbeing)

Digital Therapeutics (DTx)

GeroNursingCentre (GNC) - Older adults' wellbeing, functional ability and restorative care

Health Coaching/Patient Counselling (HealthCoach)

DigiImpact

Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine in Oulu Group (PRIMO)

Well-being for Individuals and Families in Nursing (IndFamilyNurs)

Sustainable ​ Management &​ Competence ​Development

Evidence-based digital health care (DigiHealth-EBHC)

Health care education and competence (HealthEduCom)

Management and leadership in healthcare (HealthManagement)