Per SOPHE’s strategic goals for strengthening health education and promotion capacity to achieve health equity, systems, and policies, the Director of the Innovation Health & Design Lab at University of Delaware, Dr. Martha Hall will share how her interdisciplinary team works to improve health outcomes and quality of life through the design of wearables – including clothing, wearable technology, protective equipment and rehabilitative or medical devices. These products are created to address the broad spectrum of needs in various patient populations and highlight the importance of patient-centered design in health sciences.  The Lab’s projects include a variety of patient populations, including children with disabilities, patients recovering from stroke and professional athletes.

Learning objective

• In this live event, participants will learn two (2) ways the University of Delaware’s Innovation Health & Design Lab works to improve health outcomes and quality of life through the design of wearable technology and garments (3.3.3)

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