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Providing human-centered design services to non-profits, start-ups, and innovation teams in large companies who are on a mission to improve health in U.S. or international communities. Spark Health Design can: (1) use human-centered design and human factors techniques to understand your complex set of healthcare stakeholders who must choose, use, and pay the dues for your solution to be successful, and (2) function as a product manager working between teams of scientists, engineers, regulatory experts, quality managers, and commercialization and marketing teams to guide your technology into a world class, scalable, financially sustainable product or service that achieves your intended social impact.Why does human centered design matter? By integrating it into the design process, you can improve user satisfaction and acceptance, increase the safety and usability of your products and lower your risks and liabilities. Integrating HCD throughout the development process ultimately streamlines development timelines and saves money by identifying and resolving human factors issues early in the process. According to Battelle, Every dollar invested in user experience drives $2 to $100 in returns. HCD can:Cut product development cycles by 30-50 percentDecrease support needs by 25 percentReduce use errors, liabilities and product recallsSpark's founder is a full member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and has experience in designing and executing IRB-approved human factors formative and summative evaluations per IEC 62366 and FDA Guidance. In addition, she holds NIDA Good Clinical Practice and NIH Protecting Human Research Participants Certificates.Spark Health Design also has experience facilitating over 75 HCD workshops for audiences ranging from budding social enterprises to the largest bank in the world. Example include ICB China, NRG Energy, KickStart, Cornell, MIT, and Women in the Enterprise of Science and Technology (WEST).

Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship program, lead faculty advisor to the global health team working on affordable, accessible medical devices for under-resourced settings.Current student team is designing an affordable and intuitive hearing screening device for early detection of hearing loss to improve life outcomes in Guatemala, Massachusetts, and globally with Solar Ear.2016-2019, the student team worked with Design that Matters to design a newborn warming device: http://adetravelblog.blogspot.com/search/label/ADE%20Global%20HealthGuest lectures for Olin's Biomedical Device Design, User-Oriented Collaborative Design, Fabrication, and QEA courses.

Using human-centered design to enable design of more effective, affordable and appropriate equipment to support safe surgery in under-resourced operating theaters.Check out the target product profile we helped create for the upcoming Lifebox surgical headlight: https://www.lifebox.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lifebox-Light-Target-Product-Profile.pdfThis target product profile is uniquely designed to include not only the requirements, but to also illustrate the three lighting gaps and the workflow of typical surgeries performed in low-resource settings. The result is the Lifebox Light.Provided human-centered design leadership for a project to enable affordable, durable, appropriate capnography device to improve surgical safety in LMICs. Among other benefits, measuring CO2 promotes safe and effective intubation. The result is the Lifebox-Smile Train capnography device.Lifebox is an NGO devoted to safer surgery and anaesthesia in low- and middle-income countries.

Lecturer and human centered design coach with the Babson Global Health Innovation Lab (GHIL). Through GHIL, Babson students work collaboratively with international students to design solutions to global health challenges. This program is part of the Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship at Babson.Spring 2023: a collaboration with the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.Fall 2023: a collaboration with Unifacisa Brazil medical school.

Managed the product development effort and designed and executed the human-centered design strategy for a machine learning device for cervical cancer screening in low- and middle-income countries.Spark Health Design previously provided human-centered design and usability engineering services to design the Global Health Labs in-situ oxygen filling and storage system with their commercialization partner GCE Healthcare. The resulting Air2O2 device is listed in the WHO Medical Device Compendium 2022.

Led product design and development efforts for the MIMIX Flu vaccine microneedle array patch applicator. MIMIX promises to be the first shelf-stable vaccine that has the potential to be self-applied. The resulting early stage applicator was used in a successful phase 1 clinical trial in 2022.Led product design and development efforts for the SpeciMatrix product to enable shelf-stable blood collection for diagnostics through the power of silk. This product enables shipping a whole blood or plasma sample to a centralized lab and is designed to be compatible with high throughput laboratory processing.

Led human factors effort and closely collaborated with industrial design to develop user interface for acute care and home care devices. Human factors in-context formative evaluations and contextual inquiry for acute care and home care nitric oxide gas delivery devices following IEC 62366 and FDA Guidance. Selection and management of commercial IRB, creating IRB-approved protocols and leading human factors formative usability testing, review of Use FMEA and Task Analysis.

Using human-centered design strategy to improve the user experience across the Jana Care platform including rapid diagnostic test kits, smartphone-integrated hardware, and Habits lifestyle management app. This was a consulting position.Jana Care has launched in India; a mobile diagnostic platform that makes screening and monitoring of chronic disease radically affordable.

Led the ethnographic and strategic aspects of DFA's bovine Estrus test kit to increase smallholder dairy farmer income in East Africa. In addition, recruited and led a team to create an interactive prototype and video of a disposable molecular diagnostic concept for early infant diagnosis of HIV. About Diagnostics For AllDiagnostics For All (DFA) is a non-profit enterprise who aims to saving lives through the creation of low-cost, easy-to-use, point-of-care diagnostic devices designed specifically for the developing world.

Director responsible for identifying, launching, and leading scalable medical technology projects that address the most critical challenges afflicting the poor in low- and middle-income countries. A relationship management lead who develops new products and services in partnership with domestic, international, nonprofit and private sector social enterprises. A human-centered design practitioner who catalyzes an array of multidisciplinary resources including students, professional volunteers, and contractors, using design thinking and product design expertise to create world class design.About Design that MattersDesign that Matters (DtM) is a non-profit that finds the best opportunities for design and technology to have a massive impact serving the poor in developing countries. We design products to deliver a better quality of life to millions of people. In 2012, DtM joined the exclusive list of companies who have won the National Design Award including Apple, Patagonia, Nike, and nine others. DtM’s most recent product launch, Firefly Newborn Phototherapy, won top product design accolades including the IDSA IDEA, Spark!, and Edison awards. Firefly is currently saving babies from jaundice in over 20 developing countries across Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.

Medical device and innovation with breadth of experience from design strategy to design for manufacturing. Clients included Eli Lilly, BriteSmile, Becton Dickinson, Pfizer, and Abbott Nutrition. Successful program lead managing nine projects over two years totaling $2 million revenue. Example product launches include the Target Itso modular storage system, Robitussin's new look, and the Eli Lilly Kwikpen and Savvio insulin injectors. About IDEOIDEO is an award-winning global design firm that takes a human-centered, design-based approach to helping organizations in the public and private sectors innovate and grow. IDEO identifies new ways to serve and support people by uncovering latent needs, behaviors, and desires. The resulting insights become the seed to design products, services, spaces, and interactive experiences that bring new companies and brands to life. In the process, IDEO helps organizations build creative culture and the internal systems required to sustain innovation and launch new ventures.