Health and Healthcare Innovation

The Design Lab fosters human-technology teamwork in healthcare by taking a people-centered approach to the most significant challenges in healthcare. We work with global stakeholders, from village innovators, community volunteers, and patient advocates to researchers, clinicians, government, and industry. Together, we aim to solve complex health problems that require not just singular scientific advances but innovation in multidisciplinary and distributed teamwork.

Our work is guided by the following principles:

• Focus on people, from village innovators, community volunteers, and patient advocates to researchers, clinicians, government, and industry partners
• Design for the entire well-to-well cycle of health: maintain wellness, treat medical conditions, and return to wellness
• Treat health as a complex socio-technical system, not a collection of isolated parts
• Foster human-technology teamwork by designing technologies that work with, rather than replace, people
• Emphasize cognitive continuity of care, helping people communicate and collaborate at transitions of care
• Design for continuous ground-up innovation, fostering worldwide sharing of solutions

Affiliated Research Organizations

• Center for Health Design; Director: Eliah Aronoff-Spencer
• Center for Wireless & Population Health Systems; Director: Eric Hekler
• Digital Health Technologies Lab; Principal investigator: Edward Jay Wang
• Earth 2.0; Leadership: Eliah Aronoff-Spencer
• Healthcare Robotics Lab; Principal Investigator: Laurel Riek
• Human-centered eXtended Intelligence Research Lab; Director: Nadir Weibel
• Mental Health in Design Lab; Founder and director: Elizabeth Eikey
• RADx℠ Radical; Principal investigator: Eliah Aronoff-Spencer
• ReCODE Health; Executive Director and Co-Founder: Camille Nebeker; Co-Founder: Nadir Weibel
• Resilient Collective; Director: Eliah Aronoff-Spencer
• Resilient Shield; Director: Eliah Aronoff-Spencer