DEA 6540

Policy Meets Design: High-Impact Facilities of the 21st Century

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This course has been co-created and co-led by forward-thinking community, national and global leaders. This course challenges our notions on the ways policy and design can empower people, organizations, and communities to achieve health-related operational and business objectives. In this class, we think critically together and apply a systems approach to analyze policies, identify environmental strategies, and propose and design solutions to improve lives. Course modules examine how concepts such as environmental psychology, behavioral economics, spatial analyses, human centered design, LEAN, and systems approach can be used to optimize environments and policies to produce healthy, and sustainable facilities and communities. We study the issues from multiple stakeholder perspectives, explore bottom up and top down approaches to catalyze positive change. The lessons learned and case studies shared are from health and healthcare and can be applied by the students to their area and sector of interest. Students contribute actively to the course content by customizing their readings and leading discussion sessions on a weekly basis.

Last 3 terms offered 2014SP, 2013SP, 2012SP

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