8 links for Design and Global Health
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A quick link drop on posts we have done related to design and global health, there are more, but here are the most explicit ones:
1. Design thinking + safe water: workshop report from Mexico
2. Innovation as a Learning Process
3. 7 steps for building low cost open source technologies for global health
4. healthcare + design award: fighting pneumonia in remote areas
5. Linking Clinic Design to Health Outcomes
6. Design for Global Health: Doctor White Coats Spread Disease?
7. Designing for Better Health: 11 Cent Sanitary Napkins, Waste Mangement and Oral Health
8. “Design Thinking” in Harvard Business Review (Tim Brown)
Related external links:
- What is Design Thinking?
- Kaiser Permanente – Innovation and Transfer (very large PDF)
- Rethinking-DesignThinking-Healthcare (Fall 2007)
- New Thoughts on Health and Design, Diabetes Mine (fantastic blog/site)
- Hard-won Wisdom from Successful Healthcare Services Research Innovators
- IDEO’s Besider
- Creating a Culture of Patient Safety through Innovative Hospital Design
- Applying Customer-Driven Innovation to Health Care
- Tools and Models from the Harvard Converge website
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- IDEO’s guide to designing for social impact (ted.com)
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[...] The Global Health Convergence: “Design Thinking” and Innovation There were many things that made this event great, however, in terms of extending your horizons and making you think, one of the most refreshing things was to see some convergence of disciplines and people from a variety of backgrounds. This is very hard to do and cannot be underrated. We all live in a sea of fragmentation, in systems, in professions and fragmentation in how we solve problems. This is even reflected on a micro level – look at the mainstream peer reviewed journals in healthcare where you see severe fragmentation amongst the physician, nursing and pharmacy focused journals (some of this is for good reasons and some of it’s not). This conference was in part about ditching that fragmentation and about a convergence of ideas, people and relationships working collaboratively. In addition to innovative projects, new models of delivering care and how the process of innovation can be conceptualized, managed, and enabled was discussed. Much of this was encompassed under the umbrella of Design Thinking (innovating and problem solving using various methods). Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, was a headliner on this front and re-emphasized a call for design to big, an ethic of design for social impact/change, which Jaspal and I have covered on this blog before (see our previous post – 8 Links for Design and Global Health). [...]