Designing for Global Health
Our work in global health is focused on convening multiple countries to inform the development of health systems and policy to support health improvement for all citizens.
We leverage global health design approaches to understand the lived experience of accessing and using trusted health evidence, at the systems and individual level. Gathered across diverse countries and populations, this knowledge enables us to collaboratively design and develop new infrastructures for evidence access and use; Principles and Tools to support guideline developers to create evidence in user-friendly formats; and to contribute to the development of global guidelines to support health in community contexts.
Through this work we have engaged people across more than 20 countries to gain a deeper understanding of the systems level barriers to implementation of health evidence globally. This knowledge has led to the WHO Design principles and tools to improve use and impact of WHO guidelines; working with WHO and UNICEF to convene 450 people in 10 countries to understand systems level barriers to community hand hygiene; and work across the South East Asian and South Pacific regions to co-design a global living evidence technology platform.
“The Monash University co-design methods helped us to bring together guideline developers and users from countries and regions to understand the lived experience of using WHO guidelines.”
Kidist Bartolomeos, WHO Science Division, Geneva