Sabine Kretschy

JOAFG is the research, education and training facility of Johanniter Unfall Hilfe in Österreich (Ambulance and care service). Its purpose is to train emergency medical technicians and other health professionals for their duty, on new equipment and tactics, re-certify on new algorithms, increase safety, quality and efficiency of the services provided by Johanniter. These services are i.e. emergency medical care and ambulance service, disaster relief (medical, USAR), mobile care, palliative care, youth work and community care. The mission of this research department is to find innovative and sustainable solutions for existing problems and investigate new approaches for Johanniter in their service branches. The researchers at Johanniter have a strong focus on methodology and applied science for health, mission tactics, FR equipment and strategical development of situations. Within the last 7 years from personal protective equipment up to C4C systems were co-designed and tested in several settings from basic usability testing up to large scale exercises for testing concepts and products between TRL 4 to TRL 9. The research department is involved in several H2020 and Horizon Europe as well as national projects in the fields of Security, Climate and Health.