EP 75: Designing Global Health | Tracy Johnson

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. Other Episode
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