BART=Health concern
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/us/06bcseats.html?_r=2&src=me&ref=homepage
POSTED BY: Tal
Designing Innovative Public Health Solutions (PH290-2) is a new graduate course being taught at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. The course began on 26-Jan-2011. This site aggregates community contributions from those participating in the course and will do so throughout the semester.
Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge - $10,000 Prize!
APPLICATIONS DUE: April 12, 2011
FINALISTS IDENTIFIED: April 22, 2011 (Earth Day)
Your entry can describe an innovative concept, device, product, process, or system. Academic or non-academic work can be the basis of the application. However, the work must be currently underway or have been completed during the applicant’s tenure at UC Berkeley. You’re welcome to enter a solution that has previously been entered in another competition like GSVC.
Topics could include but are not limited to:
- sustainable chemistry
- energy efficiency and conservation
- reducing climate change impacts
- life cycle product safety
- sustainable freshwater supply and distribution
- environmental policy and human behavior change
- sustainable infrastructure
- human health and the environment
- breakthrough solutions to global sustainability challenges
For more information, go to http://responsiblebusiness.haas.berkeley.edu/sps-dowchallenge.html
POSTED BY: Neha
IDEO.org Fellowship
IDEO.org will launch in the fall and is focused on spreading human-centered design through the social sector and improving the lives of people in low-income communities across the globe. IDEO.org will work directly with non-profits, social enterprises, and foundations on projects using the human-centered design process across a wide range of focus areas related to poverty alleviation, including health, financial services, gender equity, water and sanitation, and agriculture.
IDEO.org will have an 11-month fellowship program that will bring together leaders from design, business, and the social sector with senior IDEO designers to learn about and help spread human-centered design through the social sector. You can find out more about it at http://www.ideo.com/careers/ideo-org-resident
POSTED BY: Neha
Lessons from mHealth Projects
http://mobileactive.org/lessons-mhealth-what-you-should-know-and-do-launching-project
might be pertinent to this week’s class
POSTED BY: Andrea
Common Ground on NPR
file under: social entrepreneurship, vulnerability ratings
This story about Common Ground, a New York City nonprofit that deals with the long-term homeless, talks about some ways in which the organization has dealt with an enormous local problem and how that is being scaled up, with goals of housing 100,000.
POSTED BY: Adriana
Good Vaccine Challenge: Voting Ends Today
file under: disembodied arms, things that are meh, rants
I’m not sure if any of you entered the Good Vaccine Challenge, but voting for it ends tonight. (I entered a submission; it involves an illustration of a disembodied arm.)
You shouldn’t go vote for my idea; you should, however, go vote for some of the ones that show serious effort and that have the possibility of being game-changers (some of the people who proposed things: they have it together. Others: not so much.) At the very least: you should go read some of the ideas.
(Sometimes I think best in question form): What makes the difference between a proposal that is just meh and one that is actually do-able (and that accomplishes the task at hand?) What scales well? What is geographically bound, and what exactly makes it geographically bounded? How can that boundedness be translated to another, analogous boundedness for another context? What medium is best for which message? How do we know?
I notice that the Good Healthfund relies upon user voting for its decisions, and that the system is set up for easy social-media sharing: does that linkage (and social-media vote-escalation) undercut innovation? (I’m looking at you, Mid-Michigan Red Cross with your 1000+ votes and your terrible idea of using one of those godawful billboard trucks during rush hour.)
POSTED BY: Adriana
Haas Healthcare Conference Mar 12
The 5th annual Haas Healthcare Conference this year is focused around the theme:
Innovation in Healthcare: Perspectives on Access, Delivery and Development
For registration and more information visit:
www.haashealthcareconference.org/2011
Featured speakers include Scott Stropkay, Founder- Essential Design
Highlighted panel topics include:
- Overcoming Barriers to Medical Device Innovation
- Where is Personalized Medicine Today?
- Understanding and Navigating the Health Information Exchange
- Opportunities and Challenges of the mHealth Revolution
- Technology’s Role in Improving Rural Health Access
- Accountable Care Organizations: Doing More With Less
POSTED BY: Neha
Crowdsourcing Bone Marrow Donation
Over at OpenIDEO, a current challenge is the issue of bone marrow donation (they’ve also got a maternal health mobile app challenge open—particularly relevant to the Jacaranda Health project group.)
Particularly interesting to the design processes we’ve talked about in this course is the distinction between inspiration and concept (which gets explained at some length in the tabs within the site.) How do we negotiate between the two? How do we keep our preconceived concepts of what solutions might work from interfering with good ideas that might lead to other (even better) solutions?
POSTED BY: Adriana
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