Design thinking in Public Health

Design Thinking in Public Health
This seminar will provide an overview of design thinking principles – a human-centered approach to innovation and problem-solving. Specifically, it will focus on the application of the 5 stages of design thinking to address public health problems using digital technologies. Participants will learn about tools and approaches to navigate ethical and equity challenges with applying design thinking when creating digital public health interventions at scale. This session will be facilitated by product designers who will share practice-informed tools that can help participants better understand concepts related to design thinking and human-centered design in their own public health practice.

Chapters
5:26 - Summary of key concepts - what is design thinking? How is it relevant to public health
13:46 - Design thinking tools and techniques by Sol Alban
26:22 - Q & A session for the first set of presentations
39:13 - Activity 1 - Defining the public health problem and create a problem statement
1:10:46 - Design thinking in public health – an example by Heather Pedersen and Mark Bondyra
1:41:42 - Q & A session for the second set of presentations
1:46:53 - Activity 2 - Crazy 8's. Returning to the problem statement created in the first activity and brainstorming general ideas for addressing this problem
2:10:21 - Closing remarks