Design for Health Equity: Lessons from Health Literacy by Prof Lee Sanders

In partnership with Paediatrics Academy and Royal Children’s Hospital’s Grand Round, we’re thrilled to announce Prof Lee Sanders will be joining us as a special guest to kick off our 2023 seminar sessions.

Please join us in-person at 12:30-1:30pm, Wednesday 1 February 2023 at Ella Latham Theatre, Royal Children’s Hospital (48 Flemington Road, Parkville).

Prof Lee Sanders is a general paediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Health Policy, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Students. He teaches in the Human Biology Program and at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (Stanford d.School).

This seminar will consider how human-centered design, applied to the health system and informed by a health-literacy framework, may help advance health equity.  We will review evidence that includes inter-disciplinary scholarship (e.g., behavioral science, computer science, clinical epidemiology) in the areas of obesity prevention, promoting school readiness, chronic-illness management and the care of children with special health care needs. We will consider the application of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as HCI and computer vision, to achieve these ends. Finally, we will discuss a vision and infrastructure for a “Health Equity Action in Research Design” (HEARD) Collective, which will bring together rigorous research, health-system leaders and “patients as co-designers” to create, implement and test new solutions that aim to address intransigent health inequities.

A light lunch will be provided in the HELP Lounge.

If you cannot make this event in-person, you can join online here: https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/97424206942?pwd=TWwrOTVUUnBsQzdOdmRjNlJWeE1Qdz09