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Organization: Mass General Brigham
Title: MGB Health Design Lab
Lab Leadership: Diana Anderson, MD, FACHA; Sam Smith, MD; B. Christian Renne, MD
Date Launched: 2022
The Mass General Brigham Health Design Lab unites clinical, architectural, and design professionals with a mission to advance the collaboration between health care and design across four domains: research; education; clinical practice and innovation; and bioethics and policy.
Our common purpose is to improve care delivery, patient outcomes, and patient and provider satisfaction through design.
Our mission
The goal of the Lab is to improve care delivery through the clinician-designer model, where health care practitioners and designers work together to find solutions to problems with the built environment of hospitals and care settings.
Research: Investigate the health effects of specific architectural interventions. For example, answering key questions about the built environment’s impact on health outcomes; development of research-based post-occupancy evaluation tools to assist in quantifying building effects; cost-benefit analysis of design interventions, etc.
Education: Establish academic curricula to advance the development of a new hybrid field of medicine and architecture. Emerging professionals in both industries seek a convergence of career models which can inspire new modes of practice.
Clinical Practice & Innovation: Facilitate design-related innovations in clinical practice with the goal of improving new and existing care delivery spaces.
Bioethics & Policy: Assess the ethical aspects of design and health–and, in turn, examine policies at the institutional level. Even small design ideas or changes can have far-reaching implications. This is no better exemplified than in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Lab will strive to consider these aspects in its research, educational, and innovation priorities. The Lab will advocate for ethically beneficial design interventions by escalating them to the appropriate institutional or political levels of leadership.
Read more about the Lab HERE.
