EP 99: Designing Caregiving | Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam

Design Lab with Bon Ku

How can we design for trust? What is the most transformative force in healthcare? On today's episode, you're going to learn how students at a design class at Stanford started Noora Health.

Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam are Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Noora Health, an international non-profit that improves health outcomes and strengthens health systems by equipping patients and their loved ones with essential caregiving skills. Working across 300+ health facilities in India and Bangladesh, Noora Health turns hospital hallways and waiting rooms into classrooms to deliver fit-for-purpose, high-quality training for post-surgical, post-delivery, and general care, then follows up with families at home using mobile messaging technologies. To date, Noora Health's programs have reached nearly 2 million patients and caregivers. Noora Health was named a 2022 TED Audacious Project grantee and recipient of the 2022 Skoll Award for Social Innovation.

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https://www.noorahealth.org/

Design For Extreme Affordability

Audacious Project

Audacious Project 2021-22 Cohort

2022 Skoll Award For Social Innovation

TED2022 Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam

The food Edith and Shahed would treat you to if you visited them in India is first a Pani Puri Happy Hour at the Noora Office followed by Dosas at Jayadeva Institute!

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Production by Robert Pugliese

Edit by Fernando Queiroz

Cover Design by Eden Lew

Theme song by Emmanuel Houston

Indexed in the Library of Congress: ISSN 2833-2032