1. Innovative Health Technologies • New research for a new health system • 2001-2005 • How will people and society be affected by, and in turn affect, innovative health technologies?

2. Innovation implies: • existing expectations and practices disturbed • novel functionality • new production, new markets, new regulation • novel organisational demands • new skills/knowledge demands redefined • social and biological boundaries redefined

3. Programme objectives • Why a ‘programme’? • Main objectives: advance our understanding of the current and future implications of IHTs address and help answer current and future policy concerns about IHTs deepen and bridge between social science and medical science understanding broaden and strengthen the publics’ and media’s understanding of IHTs

4. Key themes and questions • risk and trust • new patient populations/new ‘bodies’ • new innovation actors • diversity of ‘sites’ for sourcing health needs • new patterns of social inclusion/exclusion? • how does it add up?

5. Phase II • objectives of Phase II • possible areas of research

6. Wider context and links • Other Research Council programmes • Research at an international level - within Europe/ USA

7. Dissemination of results • workshops • publications and broadcasts • networking • advisory committees