Global Biodesign
Overview
Global Health: Scaling Health Technology Innovations explores critical questions regarding the implementation and impact of technological innovations.
Recent advances in health technologies - incorporating innovations like robotics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and smart sensors - have raised expectations of a dramatic impact on health outcomes across the world. However, bringing innovative technologies to populations who have been traditionally underserved has proven challenging, limiting their impact and in many cases exacerbating inequities. This course explores critical questions regarding the implementation and impact of technological innovations to improve health outcomes and achieve greater health equity both domestically and globally. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and guest lectures from thought leaders, this course considers examples of technologies that have been “successful”, as well as those that have “failed”. The course also explores the disproportionately negative impact of climate change on lower income populations, and the potential role of technology in addressing that.
MED 232 students will think critically to consider conditions under which technologies reach scale and have a positive impact on global health outcomes. Students will also have an opportunity to work on real-world projects with domestic and international organizations, each of which will focus on the potential opportunity for health technology and consider approaches to ensure its social impact at scale.
This course is taught by Dr. Anurag Mairal, Adjunct Professor of Medicine and the Director, Global Outreach Programs, Dr. Krista Donaldson, Director of Innovation to Impact at Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign, and Dr. Michele Barry, Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health. This course is open to all students, but graduate students, medical students, and undergraduate students who are in their third or fourth year are preferred. Students should have some experience in global health, health equity, technology innovation, or health technology implementation.
This course is available for two or three units. Students enrolling in the course for a third unit will work on the group project described above, and have additional assignments, including an outline, presentation, and paper related to the group project. This is a Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center.
Questions can be directed to Course Manager, Antje Kirschner.
To register, students must submit a short class application and be selected to receive an enrollment code. Apply here
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What the Students Are Saying…
“Take the course! The teaching team is incredibly dedicated, and I felt like I learned so much that I would not have learned in other classes. I also liked the opportunity to work on a project and the opportunity to continue working on it in the future.”
The material is so interesting, and you hear from very experienced individuals within their fields about health technologies and how to scale them. The group project is an extremely valuable experience, as you get to collaborate with other brilliant students and gain experience helping a company with a real-world problem.”
A good overview of the global health landscape, especially if you have little prior background. The instructors are very enthusiastic, and having a mix of students from the med school, business school, etc. was interesting to get different perspectives."
“I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to interact with incredible instructors, guests, and peers with deep experience in the global health space.”
Global Course Leaders
Michele Barry Senior Associate Dean for Global Health and Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health
Krista Donaldson Director, Innovation to Impact
Meghana Nerurkar Manager, Courses and Global Programs
Anurag Mairal Director, Global Outreach Programs