PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Anne LaFond AU - Montana Cherney TI - A Theory of Change for Guiding the Integration of Human-Centered Design Into Global Health Programming AID - 10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00334 DP - 2021 Nov 29 TA - Global Health: Science and Practice PG - S209--S216 VI - 9 IP - Supplement 2 4099 - http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/9/Supplement_2/S209.short 4100 - http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/9/Supplement_2/S209.full SO - GLOB HEALTH SCI PRACT2021 Nov 29; 9 AB - Key MessagesImplementing partners, designers, and funders need tools and common language to increase the understanding and application of human-centered design (HCD) as an approach that enhances global health programming.To advance the integration of HCD and global health, designers and implementing partners should be able to articulate how HCD and global health practice can work together to support the achievement of health sector and global health ecosystem goals.The goal of this theory of change is to provide funders, implementing partners, and designers a tool to increase the understanding and application of human-centered design (HCD) as an approach that enhances global health programming. The theory of change also aims to communicate the potential for HCD to introduce new and disruptive mindsets, practices, and techniques to global health programming and to clarify HCD’s potential value from the funding application process through to implementation. We seek to answer the key question: how do design and traditional global health practices and mindsets integrate to drive more people-centered, innovative solutions to health challenges and achieve common health sector and global health ecosystem goals?