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EP 75: Designing Global Health | Tracy Johnson
EP 75: Designing Global Health | Tracy Johnson
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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Jun 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
What is a design anthropologist? How can design reframe challenges in global health? Why does Montreal have outdoor staircases?
Tracy Johnson is a Design Anthropologist at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where she
leads a portfolio of interdisciplinary investments, integrating human-centered design with the social and behavioral sciences and data analytics to bring about a deeper understanding of vulnerability as a pathway to the delivery of more equitable health outcomes. She leads the DesignforHealth.org community and was the guest editor of the Global Health: Science & Practice special supplement entitled Design for Health: Human Centered Design Looks to the Future. She received her PhD in social and cultural anthropology from Columbia University.
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Video: Blinded by Empathy
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Episode website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/tracyjohnson
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Production by Robert Pugliese
Cover Design by Eden Lew
Theme song by Emmanuel Houston
Tracy Johnson is a Design Anthropologist at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where she
leads a portfolio of interdisciplinary investments, integrating human-centered design with the social and behavioral sciences and data analytics to bring about a deeper understanding of vulnerability as a pathway to the delivery of more equitable health outcomes. She leads the DesignforHealth.org community and was the guest editor of the Global Health: Science & Practice special supplement entitled Design for Health: Human Centered Design Looks to the Future. She received her PhD in social and cultural anthropology from Columbia University.
Other Episode Mentions:
Video: Blinded by Empathy
Follow Tracy: Twitter | LinkedIn
Episode website link: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/tracyjohnson
More episode sources & links
Sign-up for Design Lab Podcast’s Newsletter
Newsletter Archive
Follow @DesignLabPod on Twitter Instagram and LinkedIn
Follow @BonKu on Twitter & Instagram
Check out the Health Design Lab
Production by Robert Pugliese
Cover Design by Eden Lew
Theme song by Emmanuel Houston
Released:
Jun 9, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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