The public as innovators
How researchers and organizations can discover valuable solutions already being developed by patients, families, and communities.
Speaking
Ideas for audiences who want to see problems differently.
I speak with academic, healthcare, design, and innovation audiences about user-led problem-solving, women’s health, behavioral innovation, and the practical value of listening differently.
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Topics
Current talks and conversations
Behavioral innovation in online communities
How large-scale community conversations can reveal novel techniques, and how AI can help researchers find them.
Women’s systems of use across the life course
A new framework for understanding how women assemble behaviors, products, relationships, and services as needs change over time.
Human-centered design as a research practice
What healthcare and academic teams gain when design methods are combined with epidemiology, implementation research, and mixed methods.
Selected talks
October 2024
Empowering Users: How Communities Innovate Health Solutions and What Designers Can Do to Help
Design Wednesdays · Featured speakerJuly 2019
Identifying User Behavioral Innovations via AI: A Demonstration in Public Health
MIT Innovation Lab · Ford Motor Company, DetroitMay 2019
The Public as Innovators: Using Big Data to Identify Community-Developed Interventions for Women’s Health
Boston University School of Public HealthJuly 2017
A Next Generation for Public Health Intervention Models: The Public as Innovators
Open and User Innovation Society · InnsbruckFormats
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