Resources

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What is Design for Health

Design is a craft and discipline that applies a specific mindset and skillset to a creative problem solving process, enabling the development of informed, sensitive, inclusive, purposeful, appealing, and innovative solutions.

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Value of Design

This resource helps articulate the benefits that design skills and mindsets can bring to global health projects through a curated set of value of design statements that connect the benefits of design to key challenges facing the global health community.

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Glossary of Design Terms

Design terms can seem like jargon to non-designers, which can lead to miscommunication. This resource helps clarify the meanings of common design terms through definitions and examples.

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Common Principles of Design in Global Health

This publication illustrates the Principles of Design and Global Health. It draws on Yale University’s Ten Principles to Strengthen Global Health, Alma Ata Declaration, Principles for Global Health Research, Standford University’s d.mindsets, IDEO’s 7 Values that Drive design and Braun’s 10 Principles of “Good Design”.

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Complimentary Approaches

Like any other approach, the benefits of design are amplified through collaboration. This resource provides a snapshot of different approaches and how they can complement one another when used in global health projects.

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Consolidated Roadmap

The resource reviews the Design for Health journey through 2019 and outlines four thematic areas being developed to help integrate Design and Global Health disciplines.

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Theory of Change for Design in Global Health

This resource, developed through collaboration with JSI and a broad team of advisors, presents potential Theories of Change for projects using human-centered design in global health.

Conversation Guide: Talking Points on Design

This conversation guide provides design pioneers and design advocates in the Global Health community with credible, relatable, and concrete talking points that address the questions and concerns of others in the community who might be reluctant, curious or enthusiastic about using design in their work. While this guide has been developed from the point of view of a design pioneer, it can be used by anyone advocating on behalf of design in the global health community.