We’re excited to have Patricia Natalie join Mila and Nick in our Innovation & Research department. April 7, 2022Patricia Natalie is a curious learner who loves to ask questions and find patterns. If you look closer, you might think you actually see a light bulb...
Brand Voice: The Make-or-Break Secret for Crafting Health Information that Inspires
How you say it matters now more than ever.By Nicholas Sufrinko October 1, 2021It’s not just what you say, it’s how you say it—an adage said a zillion times over. And yet today, it’s one that’s felt with particular intensity and dismay across public health fields like...
Can We All Use Human-Centered Design?
Part two of our series on why using human-centered design can help us create better resources, programs, and services.By Milagros Garrido, MS, PMP July 29, 2021A lmost 15 years ago, when I took my first Human-Centered Design (HCD) course, I never imagined that I would...
Let’s Be End-User Centered
A two-part series on why using human-centered design can help us create better resources, programs, and services.By Milagros Garrido, MS, PMP July 21, 2021A s a young woman growing up in the Andes of Peru, nothing irritated me more than seeing many outsiders telling...
To be or not to be (on camera)? That is the question….
Quick tips to build motivation to turn the camera on.By Valerie Sedivy, PhD July 15, 2021By far, the most common challenge we hear from facilitators working in virtual settings is that young people do not want to be on camera. There are so many reasons why this might...
5 Reasons to Use Digital Focus Groups to Gain Insights about Your Community
In the midst of a global pandemic, it's nearly impossible to get people to gather in-person. The good news is that you can still elevate the voice of your participants through digital focus groups.By Genevieve Martínez García, PhD October 8, 2020Many of us are used...
Help Young People Make a Game Plan for Their Health with Volt20
We wanted to create a virtual tool that educators and students love. The goal is to help young people create a plan for a healthy future.March 26, 2020Looking for a way to engage the young people you work with while maintaining social distancing? Consider using Volt20...
How the Healthy Teen Network Design Challenge Inspired a Dating App Idea
Hear from some of the participants in Healthy Teen Network's 3-day Design Challenge.By Tiffany Tibbs Christensen, Taylor Herrigan, Ashley Stewart, and Camille SmithFebruary 13, 2020What is the Healthy Teen Network Design Challenge? The Healthy Teen Network Design...
Evidence Is the Building Block of Innovation
How does evidence inform innovation? Healthy Teen Network recently shared our position statement on evidence and innovation.January 17, 2019We talk a lot about evidence and innovation…or maybe we just hear all the time about how we need to be evidence-based and also...
Innovative Solutions for How to Center Pleasure in Sex Ed: Wrapping Up the #HealthyTeen18 Design Challenge
How might we center pleasure in adolescent sex ed to foster authentic conversations about sexuality and promote positive sexual experiences?November 15, 2018This was the question we sought to answer in the #HealthyTeen18 Design Challenge, held in October 2018 in San...
Some Thoughts on the P-Word
Let us show you how we are centering pleasure in adolescent sex ed with the #HealthyTeen18 Design Challenge. By Nicholas Sufrinko July 31, 2018 I have a thought. What if, despite the continued attacks from an administration hostile to providing adolescents with...
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