Do you wonder how you might play a part in changing human health and improving the lives of others? Find your path with Berkeley Changemaker: Human Health. In this course you will apply the core principles of the Berkeley Changemaker curriculum by Critically exploring a full understanding of an important human health issue, Collaborating with diverse colleagues on a project team to investigate solutions using gold-standard discovery techniques, and Communicating what you’ve learned and providing thoughtful feedback to your classmates. Each week you will also research and then have a curated conversation with a changemaking expert on a range of human health topics, from startup solutions, to healthcare economics, to health equity issues.

This course uses two learning methods: weekly conversations with Human Health Changemakers, and a group project exploring an Area of Interest. You’ll have weekly discussion sessions with either a Neer-Peer Human Health Changemaker (think Forbes 30-under-30 startup founders), or a Human Health Changemaker “Legend” (think Professor Lee Hood, father of the Human Genome Project). There is no specifically assigned reading in this course. Instead, each week you will spend at least an hour researching the week’s guest(s) in preparation for an insightful conversation. This course also uses a Customer Discovery based learning process. Much of what you discover while working with your project team investigating an Area of Interest will be from conversations with people. This process employs a mindset-changing technique used in courses hosted by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Potential Areas of Interest will be suggested and will have a broad scope: from access to healthcare, to cutting-edge therapeutics, diagnostics or scientific tools, to medical economics and policy, to health IT innovations, or teams may suggest their own topic. For more information see lsec.berkeley.edu/bc-hh

changemaking, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, purpose, impact, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, biotech, human health, healthcare, therapeutics, diagnostics, medicine

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.