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DESIGN 264

Design for Health Equity (PEDS 219)

UNITS:3
GRADING:Letter (ABCD/NP)
LEVEL:Graduate
GER:—

The health care system is not particularly healthy nor caring, nor much of a system. What if you could help redesign healthcare and health-adjacent systems to work for all of us? In this course, students will collaborate with patients and their caregivers, many from underserved communities, to reimagine the future systems that better serve their needs. Blending co-design, digital product design, and foundational AI, you'll tackle the complex intersections of chronic illness, health policy, and social well-being to create solutions that deliver the right care, at the right time, in the right place. Working in teams alongside clinicians, community leaders, and technologists, you will design, prototype, and test concepts grounded in the real worlds of those you serve, all with the aim of making health care more just, accessible, and human.

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1 Term
Workshop 1Open
ID: 2155
0 / 16 enrolled
DAYS:Monday, Wednesday
TIME:1 PM – 2:50 PM
LOCATION:Departmental Room
INSTRUCTOR:
Sanders, Lee, Jun, Christine
3units

DESIGN 264: Design for Health Equity (PEDS 219)

3 units · Letter (ABCD/NP)

The health care system is not particularly healthy nor caring, nor much of a system. What if you could help redesign healthcare and health-adjacent systems to work for all of us? In this course, students will collaborate with patients and their caregivers, many from underserved communities, to reimagine the future systems that better serve their needs. Blending co-design, digital product design, and foundational AI, you'll tackle the complex intersections of chronic illness, health policy, and social well-being to create solutions that deliver the right care, at the right time, in the right place. Working in teams alongside clinicians, community leaders, and technologists, you will design, prototype, and test concepts grounded in the real worlds of those you serve, all with the aim of making health care more just, accessible, and human.

Offered in Autumn 2026 at Stanford University.

Autumn 2026 sections

  • Workshop — Monday Wednesday 1:00 PM – 2:50 PM — Departmental Room — Sanders, Lee, Jun, Christine (Graduate)

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