Human Centered Design For Global Health
Facilitator for MICA Social Design’s 2-Day Design Thinking Workshop
“Lack of access to sanitation and poor hygiene contribute to approximately 88% of childhood deaths caused by diarrheal diseases”₁ — yet it only takes washing your hands with soap and water to eliminate the world’s hygienic problems.
Role: Strategist & Facilitator
Proposed Solution
In partnership with Johns Hopkins Hospital, the MICA Social Design Studio design a 2-day Human-Centered Design Boot Camp. Over 200 public health attendees from all over the world traveled to Baltimore.
Retrospective
Considering that our team convinced middle-aged professionals to use play dough as a tool to solve a public health crisis, it’s a success. “Design-Thinking” at the time was an emerging methodology to established organizations. Our aim was to put theory into practice in order for these professionals to build value from their own organizations.
- Cirera, J. R. (n.d.). Globally, 4 out of 5 people do not wash hands after using the bathroom | WaterAid US. Retrieved October 11, 2018, from https://www.wateraid.org/us/media/global-handwashing-day-hygiene-in-schools-healthy-children
