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Public health challenges are increasingly complex and won’t be solved through traditional methods by the public health community alone. Design, with its people-centered approach and collaborative practice to harness a diversity of perspectives, can facilitate interdisciplinary efforts to creatively resolve tough global health challenges.

Human-centered design, done with attention to meaningful participation, equity, and accessibility, is an effective methodology to design digital health interventions with and for youth as it places their unique needs and motivations at the center of the design and helps to ensure usability, equity, and accessibility.

Lessons from 3 global health programs indicate that human-centered design (HCD) holds great potential for developing more tailored, impactful, and sustainable products and services to improve health and well-being. However, to take advantage of the full benefits of HCD, global health practitioners need to intentionally design and implement programs differently from typical health programs that do not incorporate design.

Global health practitioners and designers recognize that real questions remain around the application of human-centered design in global health. This supplement seeks to clarify its value and document lessons learned, while also distilling and demystifying design. We hope the supplement can act as an inspiration in building a shared vision of how design can advance impact in global health.

Lessons from 3 global health programs indicate that human-centered design (HCD) holds great potential for developing more tailored, impactful, and sustainable products and services to improve health and well-being. However, to take advantage of the full benefits of HCD, global health practitioners need to intentionally design and implement programs differently from typical health programs that do not incorporate design.

Because of existing data collection and data integrity challenges in Nigeria, the COVID-19 pandemic posed an unprecedented challenge for data and its use in decision making because of the speed and scale of the necessary response. Using a human-centered design approach to co-create an outbreak management system streamlined data and sample collection and management to improve data collection and integrity.

Because of existing data collection and data integrity challenges in Nigeria, the COVID-19 pandemic posed an unprecedented challenge for data and its use in decision making because of the speed and scale of the necessary response. Using a human-centered design approach to co-create an outbreak management system streamlined data and sample collection and management to improve data collection and integrity.

We provide an analysis of design in global health through a systematic framework to understand what it is, the value it can add, and how it compares to other common problem-solving approaches in global health. We make the case that design is an essential approach when tackling complex global health challenges.

We provide an analysis of design in global health through a systematic framework to understand what it is, the value it can add, and how it compares to other common problem-solving approaches in global health. We make the case that design is an essential approach when tackling complex global health challenges.

Because of existing data collection and data integrity challenges in Nigeria, the COVID-19 pandemic posed an unprecedented challenge for data and its use in decision making because of the speed and scale of the necessary response. Using a human-centered design approach to co-create an outbreak management system streamlined data and sample collection and management to improve data collection and integrity.