DOTFL — Health Design Lab

Session 1 - Better Services

Pandemic-inspired service designers are bringing health care to communities. COVID-19 forced health care providers to quickly ramp up existing services (telemedicine) and set up entirely new ones (mobile testing and vaccination sites). Hospitals around the world developed safe, robust services at record speed. Experts from Thomas Jefferson University’s Health Design Lab discuss how to best serve neighborhoods at risk. Featuring presentations from Bon Ku, MD and Morgan Hutchinson, MD, Leah Reisman, PhD, and Sonya Stokes, MD, MPH. Watch the broadcast here!

Session 2 - Deeper Breaths

Designers are working quickly to protect humans from illness. At the start of the pandemic, designs for personal protective equipment (PPE) had changed very little for nearly fifty years. In the face of alarming shortages, the global maker movement jumped into action, and legions of home sewers stitched masks for essential workers. Engineers, artists, doctors, and designers sought to improve the comfort, effectiveness, and sustainability of PPE. Meanwhile, official guidelines were shifting. What is the state of PPE design now? Featuring talks from Monique Smith, MD, Adam Wentworth, and Sabrina Paseman. Watch the video here!

Session 3 - Safer Spaces

Designers and doctors are reimagining the places where we live, work, and gather. Many modern indoor spaces are sealed shut and climate-controlled. The pandemic prompted people to open the windows, move activities outside, and control the flow of indoor air. From plastic sneeze guards to graphics for social distancing, new norms sprang quickly into place. What worked and what didn’t? How can everyone have access to healthier spaces? Featuring presentations from Jennifer D. Roberts, Jennifer Tobias, and Andrew Ibrahim, MD. Watch the broadcast here!

Episode 12

This episode features Miya Osaki, Ijeoma Azodo MD, and Natasha Margot Blum.

Guest UserJuly 31, 2020

Episode 11

This episode features Michelle Flood, PhD, Robert Fabricant, Kimberly Dowdell, HOK, Andrew Ibrahim MD, Pragya Mishra and Trevor Zimmer.

Guest UserJuly 24, 2020Health Design Lab

Episode 10

This episode features Stesha Doku MD, Rachel Smith and Nzinga Harrison MD.

Guest UserJuly 17, 2020

Episode 9

This episode features Sunny Williams, Rhea Boyd MD, and Michael Murphy.

Guest UserJuly 10, 2020Health Design Lab

Episode 8

This episode features Sheila Ruder, Emma Greer and Dennis Boyle.

Guest UserJune 26, 2020Health Design Lab

Episode 7

This episode features Norma Padron, Juhan Sonin, Emily Silverman and James Pinckney II.

Guest UserJune 19, 2020Health Design Lab

Episode 6

This episode features Aditi Joshi, Sheila Sahni and George Aye

Guest UserJune 12, 2020Health Design Lab

Episode 5

This episode features Marion Leary, Ashley Howell and Bryan Lee

Guest UserJune 5, 2020Health Design Lab

Episode 4

This episode features Trish Henwood, Effe Kean, Eden Lew and Mike Natter

Guest UserMay 29, 2020Health Design Lab

Episode 3

This episode features Sabrina Paseman, Nick Dawson and Erin Peavey

Guest UserMay 22, 2020Health Design Lab

Episode 2

This episode features JT Tan, Alfred Atanda, Ellen Lupton and Bon Ku

Guest UserMay 15, 2020

Episode 1

This episode features Morgan Hutchinson, Matt Fields and Rich Levitan

Guest UserMay 8, 2020Health Design LabDOTFL, Airway, Intubation Shield

Designing on the Front Lines (DOTFL) is a series of online conversations organized by the Health Design Lab at Jefferson University School of Medicine with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Season 2

In this three-part virtual forum, designers and doctors talk about designing better services, PPE, public spaces, and more in the age of COVID-19.

Session 1 - Better Services

Session 2 - Deeper Breaths

Session 3 - Safer Spaces

Season 1

Watch the replays from our weekly pandemic web series we recorded during the first half of 2020. We brought together some AMAZING minds to talk about how we were all getting by on the front lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Show notes and recordings available now via Cooper Hewitt, or scroll below to watch a specific episode!