This interview series is part of First Mile Health, a collaboration between IDEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Building H to imagine how we might design health into everyday life. — COVID-19 made health mainstream discourse. Beyond public health, the health of the environment, health of the economy, and health of our democracy are all at stake. …

This interview series is part of First Mile Health, a collaboration between IDEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Building H to imagine how we might design health into everyday life. — The food system is not broken, it’s designed with inequity as a built-in feature. The key to creating more equitable food systems lies in igniting innovation in systemically overlooked places: the places where people have the fewest resources, the lowest incomes, and the least choice.

This interview series is a collaboration between IDEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Building H to imagine how we might design health into everyday life. — Health is much more than a diagnosis, it represents an individual’s whole self. If we see health not as the absence of disease but rather the presence of vitality, then designing for health means designing for people’s diverse experiences, histories, and everyday lives. …

This interview series is part of First Mile Health, a collaboration between IDEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Building H to imagine how we might design health into everyday life. — The pandemic has completely transformed how we move around. Since life became more local, we’re rediscovering what’s close to home. Could these new patterns, behaviors, and rituals permanently shape our movements? Or will we revert back to our comfort zones?

This interview series is part of First Mile Health, a collaboration between IDEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Building H to imagine how we might design health into everyday life. — The mind, the body, and the spirit are deeply connected — so how might we design for all three as a whole? How might we do that now, when damages to all three seem too much to fathom? In this interview, Ryushin Paul Haller, teacher, former Abbot of the San…

This interview series is a part of a collaboration between IDEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Building H to imagine how we might design health into everyday life. — To make everyday life healthy by design, we need to understand what happens not just at the individual level but also what the trends are at the scale of communities and populations. In this interview, we’re speaking with Sam Pottinger, a data scientist and data visualization artist at IDEO, to…

This interview series is a collaboration between IDEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Building H to imagine how we might design health into everyday life. — Health is very much about relationships. If anything, COVID-19 has made it abundantly clear not only how our individual health is connected, but also how interconnected the world is — between individuals and their communities, humans and their environments, present-day experiences and the histories and stories that set their context.

This interview series is a collaboration between IDEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Building H to imagine how we might design health into everyday life. — To make everyday life healthy by design, we need to understand what health means for people personally and for the systems shaping everyday life. In this interview, we’re unpacking experiences of food. Food is not just what we eat; it’s how we eat it, who we enjoy it with, where…

This interview series is a part of a collaboration between IDEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Building H to imagine how we might design health into everyday life. — To design health back into everyday life, we need to understand what health means for people in this new context. Starting here, even the most unexpected moments can be optimized for health and wellbeing. For our first interview, we’re unpacking the value of experiencing nature. When we think of the…