Health Design Lab

The final Health Access Philly conversation closed out at Bartram’s Garden last week, with Maitreyi Roy on how community can serve as health infrastructure. 🌱

There are 3 things we are carrying into the work ahead:

1. Green space is public health infrastructure.
Green space belongs in the same category as clean water, reliable transit, and working streetlights. Not an amenity, not a luxury, not a perk for the neighborhoods that can fund it. Infrastructure.

2. Sankofa Community Farm is helping people build a new relationship with healthy food and land.
Sankofa Community Farm grows about 15,000 pounds of food a year for the surrounding neighborhood and just launched Pennsylvania’s first City Farmer Apprentice program.

3. Trust is built slowly, and it is never finished.
Maitreyi drew a sharp line between outreach and engagement. Outreach is telling people you exist. Engagement is building a relationship, and that work, in her words, is ongoing.

Next: the JeffSolves Summer Sprint Challenge kicks off June 16. 🚀
Five weeks, hybrid format. Teams will design and build tools that help eligible Pennsylvanians keep their health and food benefits as HR-1 takes effect. No experience required. Individuals are welcome and will be matched into teams at kickoff.

Details and interest form at healthaccessphilly.com

Join us this Thursday at Bartram’s Garden to hear from Executive Director Maitreyi Roy on how the garden strives to build healthier communities!

A thing of beauty! The Superbowl LIX 3D printed replica Lombardi Trophy took a total of around 80 hours to print, most of which we live streamed from the at ! Stay tuned for the time lapse which we will be dropping soon.
🦅 Bowl

Remixed file by with original design credit on the trophy model to LancLancDoubleD via Thingiverse

Join us Wednesday, February 5, 2024 broadcasting live from the Health Design Lab, when our six teams of design track students from Sidney Kimmel Medical College will present their health design projects!

Over the past two years medical students in the SKMC design track have spent time learning and applying health design thinking methods to solve complex challenges in healthcare. Working in teams, students develop deep empathy within healthcare problem spaces via contextual inquiry and by practicing codesign with users, while exercising their creative problem-solving muscles on real world challenges.

Join us virtually or in person on October 10th to hear this year’s project pitches!
RSVP on our homepage. Link in bio!

Don't miss JeffSolves MedTech Pitch Night 2023 as a part of DesignPhilly! - https://JeffSolves2023.eventbrite.com

JEFFSOLVES RECAP!! 💡🧠💪🏼 We had such a great time at our pitch day at Delve celebrating our 3 teams and getting to see what they worked so hard on throughout this program! Thank you so much to everyone who tuned in to see the presentations and support our students. A video recap is available in our website and be sure to check out the new nexus article highlighting the work of this year’s teams at the link in our story!

TOMORROW!! JeffSolves is BACK at ! Over the past year, 13 medicine and industrial design students from Thomas Jefferson University have worked together, conducting in-depth user research and problem identification within Jefferson Health and translating those insights into commercializable innovations via an intensive product development immersion with experts from Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Health, and Delve. Now, these the multidisciplinary teams present their medical design innovations. Join us virtually to see their pitch presentations TOMORROW, October 19th from 12-1! Link in bio and in our story for registration 💡🎟️