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Andra Bria

Navi Neuro; University of Bern; University of Bucharest

Andra Bria

Andra Bria is a digital product developer and science communicator working at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and social justice. She studied brain health, digital product design and development, social science, and equity policies.
In her work she intertwines creative and cultural insights and technology expertise with an innate social justice approach.

Andra has been working within the technology innovation field for more than 10 years in high-impact industries, particularly healthcare (healthcare IT, medical imaging data, preventative health), education (XR, VR, product development in education), and AI (automation and integration space, enterprise system orchestration).

She is a community advisory board member at EFNA (European Federation of Neurological Associations), bringing patient perspective and advocacy into policy making, and has initiated Navi Neuro – a platform helping patients, families, and policy makers discover and implement solutions sooner through education, curated pathways, and direct connections to pioneers in brain health and neurological care.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries Romania;
Topics Access to care; Age-friendliness; Ageing in place; AI Ethics; Artificial Intelligence; Attitudes and Expectations about Long-Term Care; Autonomy; Care economy; Care inequalities; Care innovations; Care integration/ coordination; Care justice; Care management; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Care outcomes; Costs of LTC; Deinstitutionalisation; Demand for Long-Term Care; Dementia care and support; Digital Technology; Ecosystems of care; Employment education and family carers; Ethics and care; Exercise and healthy ageing; Financing LTC; Gender and care; Healthcare access in LTC; Home/domiciliary care; Housing Adaptations; Housing and care; Information and data systems in LTC; Intergenerational approaches; LGBTQ+ people and Long-Term Care; Loneliness among older people; Long term care subsidies; LTC and people with mental health conditions; LTC and younger people; LTC Reforms; LTC Workforce; Natural Language Processing; Neurodegenerative conditions; New models of care; Outcome measurement in LTC; Outcomes for unpaid/informal carers; Parent carers; Person-centered care; Prevention and rehabilitation and LTC; Primary Health Care; Quality of care; Relationship between LTC use and hospital use; Research gaps and priorities in LTC; Respite care; Rights and people’s voices in LTC systems; Risk in Long-Term Care; Science communication; Social connection; Social Innovation in LTC; Social Protection; Stigma and discrimination; Support for unpaid carers; Technology and LTC; Universal design and LTC; Unpaid / informal care; Value of LTC; Workforce capability; Workforce pay and conditions; Younger carers;
Methods Assessment tool development; Case studies; Co-production methods; Comparative policy analysis; Cost analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis; Data science and LTC research; Expert consultations; Guidelines development; Implementation science; Knowledge-exchange; Machine learning; Participatory research methods; Policy analysis; Political decisions analysis; Practice-based approaches; Questionnaire; Research ethics; Science communication; Service mapping; Translation and cultural adaptation of instruments; Usability study;
Role Advocacy;
Interest Groups Ageing and Place; Community-based approaches to dementia care; Economics of Long-Term Care; Employment Education and Family carers; Innovation in Long-Term Care; Integrated Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care Policy; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; Strengthening Responses to Dementia; Technology and Long-Term Care;
Websitehttp://andrabria.com
X (Twitter)https://x.com/Andra_Bria
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andrabria/
Other 1https://andrabria.substack.com/;
Research interests
  •  Social, cultural, and psychological influences, norms, and belief systems that shape treatment engagement, caregiver expectations, funding priorities, and public understanding of neurodegenerative conditions;

  • Researching the impact of structural and societal factors on women’s health, with particular attention to the attribution, expectation, and burden of caregiving.

  • Developing care-partner-reported outcomes to produce structured clinical reports that better characterize disease progression and treatment effectiveness from the patient’s lived perspective.

  • Advancing participatory approaches that position care partners as active contributors to healthcare advisory groups and policy decisions.

 
Key publications

Personal publication: https://andrabria.substack.com/