On Tuesday, September 10, MCAH professor Jaspal Sandhu presented brown bag talk at the
UC Berkeley School of Public Health titled "Human-Centered Design for Innovations in Domestic Violence Prevention".
Dr. Sandhu(link is external), Assistant Adjunct Professor (Professor of Practice) in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health at UC Berkeley, is managing and co-founding partner of the Gobee Group(link is external), a social innovation consultancy. In 2018, the Blue Shield Foundation partnered with Gobee Group to launch Reimagine Lab(link is external), an initiative that uses human-centered design approaches to accelerate new ideas to prevent cycles of family and domestic violence in California's diverse communities. The innovation engine of this experience has been a team of 16 leaders from diverse professional backgrounds with equally diverse personal identities. This application of human-centered design to an issue as complex as domestic violence is novel for the emerging "design for health" field.
Dr. Sandhu’s practice-oriented talk presented the framework of Reimagine Lab as one that may be replicated for other complex public health challenges facing society.