As President of the Oxford FemTech Society, Christiane chaired Oxford’s inaugural FemTech Forward Conference under the umbrella of the Human Welfare Conference at Green Templeton College and regularly hosts educational events and lectures. She is committed to build interdisciplinary collaborations between academia, industry, healthcare providers, policymakers, investors, and advocacy groups to drive innovations and provide evidence for FemTech interventions. She is also the Co-Founder of the FemTech Germany Association and regularly advocates for women’s rights for UN Women UK.

Dr Christiane Hagel works at the Nuffield Department of Medicine since 2018. After completing her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Clinical Medicine in 2024, she joined the Medicine Quality Research Group to evaluate the design and implementation of a dashboard that serves as a guidance tool for medicine regulatory authorities to select portable screening technologies for the detection of substandard and falsified medicines in post-market surveillance. Christiane’s wider research covers digital health technologies and how these need to be designed to improve quality of care and benefit health systems. This includes to learn how technologies realistically can be introduced for widespread adoption, scalability, and long-term sustainability. She currently also holds a position at the Oxford Internet Institute to explore the methodological and usability challenges in shifting from interviews to self-reported social network analysis data as part of the on-going technical advancements of the software Network Canvas. 

From 2018 - 2024, Christiane worked with the Health Systems Collaborative, first as a Research Assistant and later as a Doctoral Researcher, supporting research on health information systems, such as DHIS2, and digital adoptions in LMICs. Her thesis investigates how more rapidly available dashboards may enable the use of data-driven performance feedback at multiple levels of the health system in Kenya (and other LMIC settings) and how these interventions help to improve quality of neonatal hospital care. With a mixed-methods and human-centred design approach, her work contributes to improving the design and implementation processes of digital health tools so that they align with different user needs and contexts. 

Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Christiane worked as a scientific consultant supporting medical informatics projects in Germany commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Health and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. During her Master of Public Health (MPH) studies at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, she focussed on infectious disease epidemiology, European health systems and policy research and social network analysis, and subsequently worked with the Pandemic and Epidemic Disease Management team of the World Health Organization. Moreover, Christiane has a legal background, researched medical criminal law and ethics, and worked as a legal research associate in corporate law in the past.