Category: ASRH

From Research to Intervention: Creating Healthier Futures with Indian Youth

By Soo Young Lee, Ci3 Research Specialist Health disparities research helps to document critical gaps in outcomes across a variety of domains, however, rarely are young people involved in designing the interventions to reduce these disparities. To address this problem, Ci3 at the University of Chicago launched Kissa Kahani, an India-based project that applies multimedia storytelling and innovative participatory … Continue reading From Research to Intervention: Creating Healthier Futures with Indian Youth

Making Contraceptive Choices Tangible For Youth

By Catherine Wieczorek, Visual Communications Designer, Ci3 Design Thinking Lab How does Ci3’s Design Thinking Lab (DTL) go from a prototype created during a participatory design workshop with young people, to a scalable communication tool? The idea of a tangible birth control counseling tool came directly from young people during our 2017 Summer Design Challenge, … Continue reading Making Contraceptive Choices Tangible For Youth

Co-Designing Adolescent-Centered Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare

By Amanda Geppert, Director, Ci3 Design Thinking Lab Laura Paradis, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Design Lead, Ci3 Design Thinking Lab The Ci3 Design Thinking Lab (DTL) works with young people and providers to understand how sexual and reproductive healthcare could work better for youth and young adults. Recognizing that young people face challenges in … Continue reading Co-Designing Adolescent-Centered Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare

Quality Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare in the Justice System

By Lee Hasselbacher, J.D. Sr. Policy Researcher The Mobile Health Unit, one of Ci3’s Design Thinking Lab projects, seeks to find new ways to meet young people where they are and provide the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care they desire. We believe that through designing new systems of delivery in partnership with communities and … Continue reading Quality Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare in the Justice System

Infection City: New GCC Board Game Pits Meningitis Against a Team of Epidemiologists

By Bea Malsky, A/V Specialist Game Changer Chicago Infection City is an asymmetrical board game about epidemiology, vaccines, public health resource distribution, and meningitis. Intended for use in high school classrooms, Infection City enlists its most treacherous player as an insidious infection and the rest as a team of epidemiologists defending the city of Chicago with … Continue reading Infection City: New GCC Board Game Pits Meningitis Against a Team of Epidemiologists