The Design Health Program is a patient-focused program that discovers the pressing needs in healthcare and assembles teams from across engineering, business, medicine and other disciplines to create solutions. The program provides an immersive learning experience where teams don’t solve pre-defined problems, but actively identify, validate, and prioritize problems that will impact human health.
Through a partnership with the School of Medicine and School of Nursing, members of each team gather data and insight into the clinical environment and use structured ethnography tools to identify unmet, underserved, and unarticulated needs.
Currently, the program is open to graduate students from the Pratt School of Engineering and the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences (including PhD and master’s students), second-year MBA students from the Fuqua School of Business, students and trainees from the Duke School of Medicine, nurses and students from the Duke School of Nursing, and students from Duke Law.