Human-Centered Design in Public Health Innovation: A Workshop with Ariadne Labs

Join Ariadne Labs’ innovation experts in a hands-on workshop to learn how they use Human-Centered Design to develop solutions that save lives and reduce suffering around the world. Human-centered design uses empathy, ideation, and experimentation to design tools and systems that center the needs of the humans that use them. In public health, human-centered design can produce tools and systems that work for their most vulnerable users and beneficiaries.

Learn the design process behind tools like the Surgical Safety Checklist and the Serious Illness Conversation Guide – from identifying a problem to designing , testing, and implementing a solution. Then become a designer yourself and approach some of today’s greatest challenges in public health, following the research process to center and prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable users.

Lunch will be provided! Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/Pw3as4gRCC

Speakers:

Meghan Long is the Assistant Director of the Innovation Platform. In this role she leads a team of design, innovation, and project management specialists who help source, generate, and develop ideas that become valuable products to drive improvement in health care delivery.

Laura Onelio has spent the last seven years in innovation and human-centered design.  Currently, she’s an Innovation and Design Specialist at Ariadne Labs, where she guides and supports teams in applying the human-centered design process to develop simple tools that solve complex public health problems.  Previously, Laura worked at the Harvard Business School as the Program Director and Senior Researcher of an innovative initiative called Crafting Your Life, which aims to help students and alumni pursue a life well-lived.  In this role, she led a diverse, multidisciplinary team to create a new MBA course and pilot a new model for lifelong learning.  Prior to HBS, Laura was an innovation consultant at Innosight, a firm co-founded by Clayton Christensen, where she partnered with Fortune 100 companies to build their innovation strategies, systems, and capabilities.

Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The Lab works to improve safety, equity, and integration throughout health care and public health, working in areas such as maternal health, primary health care, surgery, and serious illness care. Their unique methodology has produced hundreds of tools that have touched hundreds of millions of lives.