UArizona Health Sciences Design

Transforming personal and community health starts with bold ideas. In HSD 501: Design for Health Workshop, graduate students from across disciplines come together to tackle real-world health challenges with design thinking. Through enhanced group collaboration, students gain: ? Tools for inquiry and analysis ? Creative confidence and problem-solving skills ? Experience in prototyping and pitching innovative solutions If you're ready to address human health needs with empathy and innovation, join us this fall! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gacHwJgt

Level up your digital design skills with Adobe Illustrator! HSD is excited to partner with University of Arizona, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences and University Center for Assessment, Teaching, and Technology (UCATT) to offer HSD/SBS 405/505, Adobe Illustrator: Vector-based Editing & Communication. HSD/SBS 405/505 is an introduction to Illustrator that explores fundamental vector-based editing and compositing techniques used for visual communication. In the course, you’ll learn to investigate layers, local and global adjustments, and other non-destructive editing techniques while creating vector-based illustrations. Instructors guide you through the process of demystifying Illustrator and developing graphic analysis and creation skills. By the end of the course, you should have a critical eye for understanding images used to narrate our visual culture, as well as a grasp of core skills in industry-standard vector creation, design principles, digital illustration processes, digital literacy and generative AI. The skills acquired can be applied in your personal, academic and professional pursuits. HSD/SBS 405/505 will be offered in the first seven-week session this fall (8/25 – 10/15) as an online, asynchronous course. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gacHwJgt

The Design for Health Workshop gives students direct experience in the design process, starting with ways to understand the needs of health seekers and define the issues facing them. Through enhanced group collaboration, students learn to see past assumptions and find innovative responses to real-world health challenges. The Design for Health Workshop (HSD 401) will be offered this fall on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 to 10:45 a.m., and will include an Honors section. Watch our video story: https://lnkd.in/giS98yQg Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gBVPQj_k

Join us in welcoming Suresh Garimella as the new president of the University of Arizona! If you can't attend in person, see the link below for a livestream.

Join the Engineering Design Center and Health Sciences Design for an upcoming Switch Adaptive Toys Workshop! ?? You'll learn how to solder and add components to toys to make them more accessible! All switch-adaptive toys made during the workshop will be donated to children with disabilities. Interested in signing up? Use the QR code in our post or the link copied here: https://lnkd.in/ghmJVrhF

The University of Arizona Counseling & Psych Services (CAPS) is seeking a licensed mental health clinician (LCSW, LPC, LMFT or other relevant credential) to serve the College of Health Sciences (COHS). This clinician will serve as an integral member of the COHS student services team by supporting the mental health and well-being of all students and creating an environment of trust, respect and openness. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g3i_dBR7 ??: Noelle Haro-Gomez, University of Arizona Health Sciences

From all of us at Health Sciences Design, we wish you a joyous holiday season! Our offices will be closed for the U of A winter closure starting tomorrow. We look forward to seeing our students, colleagues, and community in the new year!

As a graduate student in public health, Jaclyn Larson began taking classes at Health Sciences Design. She was soon inspired by design processes that could address health challenges holistically, taking into consideration their underlying causes and their impact on the lived experiences of individuals and communities. That led Larson to pursue HSD's graduate certificate, Design for Health Innovation, and use her capstone project to focus on a design need that she knew firsthand. When Larson's son was two years old, he experienced a traumatic brain injury from a car accident. Since then, he has relied on an assistive device to aid his day-to-day communication. But that device introduced new challenges that limited his freedom of movement. Determined to find a better solution, Larson embarked on a design journey that could benefit her son — and impact the broader disability community. Learn more in the story below.

HSD is excited to announce another addition to its schedule of classes! HSD 431/531, MILAGRO Collaborative, is being offered again in spring 2025. In the MILAGRO course, students develop interprofessional perspectives across health-related disciplines as they participate in activities with faculty and staff from four of the @uazhealthsciences colleges. In addition to in-class learning, students gain direct experience as they volunteer with Casa Alitas Migrant Welcome Center and other community partners to provide care and services to migrant families. In this dynamically dated, one-unit course, students will meet for six one-hour class sessions, plus additional service-learning experiences in the community. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gacHwJgt

Are you still looking for spring courses to complete your schedule? Health Sciences Design offers unique learning experiences to undergraduate and graduate students from across majors and programs. Courses engage students in problem-solving and innovation through design practices, interdisciplinary approaches, and career training. Spring 2025 enrollment is still open. Visit registrar.arizona.edu for info on how to enroll. HSD SPRING 2025 COURSES HSD 401 and 501 Design for Health Workshop: Addressing Human Health Challenges with Design Thinking HSD 420/520 Healthy Design Practices: From the Makerspace to the Community HSD 598 Design for Health Studio: Capstone Experience HSD 649 Survival Skills and Ethics HSD 496/596 Simulation and Survival: An Immersive Educational Introduction to Threat Assessment, Emergency Planning, and Survival in the Uncertainty of the 21st Century NURS/HSD 250 JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion) Health Equity: Connection, Community & Healing in Urgent Times HSD/SBS 405/505 Adobe Illustrator: Vector-based Editing & Communication HSD/SBS 406/506 Adobe Photoshop: Pixel-based Editing & Communication Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gacHwJgt