Center for Health by Design Co-Directors
Richard Holden
Department Chair - HEWD, Dean's Eminent Scholar, Professor
I am a systems engineer, psychologist, and implementation scientist with >20 years’ experience working in the domains of health and healthcare, including a faculty career dedicated to research on health interventions. I use systems engineering and clinical research approaches to design, implement, and evaluate sociotechnical interventions for healthy aging and disease prevention and care. I have led and worked on numerous intervention design and evaluation projects focused on clinicians, patients, family caregivers, and healthcare delivery microsystems in settings ranging from intensive care and emergency medicine to primary and specialty (including behavioral) care to community- and home-based care services.
Nicole E. Werner
Associate Professor, Dean's Eminent Scholar
I am a systems thinker, imaginative leader, and human-centered design evangelist committed to revolutionizing the health journey through human-centered sociotechnical system design to improve the health of individuals and communities, particularly among older and vulnerable populations and their care partners.
My expertise is in applying social-cognitive psychology approaches to enable scientific discovery related to the work of family caregivers of people living with for AD/ADRD and then using that scientific discovery as the foundation for the user-centered design, implementation, and rigorous evaluation of technology interventions to improve caregiver and person living with AD/ADRD health outcomes.
Center for Health by Design Executive Council
