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Seminar Video
Presenter
Elizabeth Chen, Ph.D., M.P.H.
University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Dr. Liz Chen is an associate professor and Health Behavior M.P.H. Concentration Lead in the Department of Health Behavior at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is also the Design Thinking Lead for Innovate Carolina, the unit on campus dedicated to innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development. Dr. Chen obtained her B.A. in Anthropology from Princeton University and her M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Health Behavior from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Building on community-based participatory research and implementation science approaches, she focuses on integrating human-centered design (HCD) (i.e. design thinking) methodologies into public health research, teaching, and practice. As a methodologist, she has applied HCD methods to health disparities research related to nutrition, food waste, pregnancy prevention, and developmental disabilities.
Dr. Chen was inducted into the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 class for Social Entrepreneurship for her award-winning Real Talk mobile app for teens and recently published a new book titled The Experimentation Field Book through Columbia Business School.
Her future research will concentrate on the intersection of HCD and implementation science and the potential for HCD methods like rapid prototyping to transform health disparities research and center real people’s wants and needs from start to finish.
Dr. Liz Chen is an associate professor and Health Behavior M.P.H. Concentration Lead in the Department of Health Behavior at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is also the Design Thinking Lead for Innovate Carolina, the unit on campus dedicated to innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development. Dr. Chen obtained her B.A. in Anthropology from Princeton University and her M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Health Behavior from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Building on community-based participatory research and implementation science approaches, she focuses on integrating human-centered design (HCD) (i.e. design thinking) methodologies into public health research, teaching, and practice. As a methodologist, she has applied HCD methods to health disparities research related to nutrition, food waste, pregnancy prevention, and developmental disabilities.
Dr. Chen was inducted into the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 class for Social Entrepreneurship for her award-winning Real Talk mobile app for teens and recently published a new book titled The Experimentation Field Book through Columbia Business School.
Her future research will concentrate on the intersection of HCD and implementation science and the potential for HCD methods like rapid prototyping to transform health disparities research and center real people’s wants and needs from start to finish.