Silviya Ivanova

Silviya Ivanova is a PhD candidate researching Co-creation skills for decolonized, just and trustworthy AI in healthcare. She has a bachelor’s degree in public health and health management from Medical University of Sofia and a master’s degree in medical sciences with a major in global health from Gothenburg University in Sweden.

She has experience in public health research from a quantitative research internship she had at Amsterdam University Medical Centre, where she was collecting data and conducting her master’s thesis focused on health literacy and substance use. She also has clinical research experience in neurological, cardiological and psychological studies.

Through her academic experience, she had the opportunity to live in several countries, such as Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Therefore, she had the opportunity to learn to speak many languages and to be curious to learn more. For almost a decade, she was part of the non-formal education sphere, participating in and facilitating international training programs all over Europe.

Her research interests centre on co-creation in healthcare, as well as in business and technological settings. She is particularly eager to explore how participatory approaches can reshape innovation processes in health technology. Building on this, she aims to bring a more qualitative, human-centred perspective to the skills and strategies that co-creation involves. Alongside her research, she is passionate about cultural anthropology and the management of inequalities.