Welcome to the 2026 Cense Summer Series.
This year, we are focused on the fundamentals of designing for health amidst complexity.
A lunchtime series looking at the foundation of designing for health and care. Learn to innovate, create, and transform health with design.
This is a lunchtime — or anytime — opportunity to learn a new skill, idea, or approach to design for health. It’s part of a six-event series that will explore the fundamental ideas that help leaders in health to innovate, change, and shape services, programs, and systems that improve people’s health and wellbeing. It’s designed for working professionals, but no background in design or health services is required.
Materials will be provided after the events to enrich your learning.
The series profiles six aspects of strategic design for health and offers learners an introduction to the key concepts, methods, and approaches used in systems and service design, design thinking, evaluation, behavioural science for change, and complexity.
It’s more than a lecture; it’s an interactive primer that will give you insights, tools, and ways of thinking about how to bring the power of design into your work as a health leader, clinician, researcher, or advocate.
The agenda is as follows (all events are at 1200 Eastern Time):
Thursday, July 2: Understanding Design in Two Questions: An introduction to Designing for Health
July 16: Creativity and the Practice of Design in Health Systems
July 30: Complexity and Health
August 13: Connecting Health to Impact By Design: Evaluation
August 27: Designing for Health Behaviour and Change
September 10: Creating Better Services in the Health Context: Service Design
To register, go to the Eventbrite event page linked below or here.