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Designing the Future: Health and Aging is a course developed for students with a multidisciplinary and/or public health background and interest who are eager to learn new approaches that can be applied in a variety of settings. Students will be introduced to an overview of the public health impact of an aging society as well as design frameworks and methods (i.e. human centered design, co-design, social design) that can be applied to deal with complex problems impacting health and aging. They will apply parts of design frameworks to public health issues and explore purpose-driven innovations that integrate considerations of community-based and service learning and user experiences. Between group projects that include community partners and individual work, students will be involved in diverse activities including engaging in basic research (primary and secondary data collection and review), reframing problems, ideation or collective brainstorming and developing and testing concept prototypes. Grades are based on class participation, completion of group project, group presentation and papers.