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Stacey Chang is a designer of new creative solutions to age-old dilemmas in health. He focuses on building complex adaptive systems that can respond to the dynamic challenge of producing health in human society, and currently advises a broad array of efforts seeking to build more sustainable, equitable, and effective models. Prior to founding New Origin Studio, Stacey served as the Founding and Executive Director of the Design Institute for Health at the University of Texas at Austin. The Design Institute was a first-of-its-kind institution, dedicated to creating systemic human-centered solutions in clinical and community contexts.
Embedded as an integrated part of an operating health system and a medical education and training program, the Institute considered topics as broad as the design of products and services, the built environment, integration of social and medical interventions, the structure and strategy of national health systems, and new models for societal health at a global scale.
Before his academic tenure, Stacey served as the Managing Director of the Healthcare practice at IDEO, the global design and innovation firm. Clients included governments, research institutions, hospitals, pharma, insurance, medtech, and all the upstarts trying to rewrite the script, in both established and emerging markets.
Stacey presents frequently and is widely published, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM Catalyst, Harvard Business Review, and Politico. He has served as a TEDMED Editorial Advisory Board member, a Thought Leader for NEJM Catalyst, an Eisenhower Fellow, and an advisor to the Global Delivery arm of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He holds degrees in engineering from MIT and Stanford.
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Natalie Privett PhD leans into messy challenges and complex systems. She leverages deep expertise in systems theory, design, and health systems to reframe tenacious problems and design transformational action to advance health. Across her professional roles, Natalie has advanced systemic opportunities at every level of health and care while also training future health systems change agents, from physicians to policy makers to designers.
Before joining New Origin Studio, Natalie was Director of Systems Design at the Design Institute for Health at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, a first-of-its kind academic institution dedicated to developing and applying creative design approaches to solving complex large-scale health system challenges. Concurrently, she also launched and taught in the Masters of Arts in Design in Health. Prior to University of Texas, Natalie served as Lead System Design Engineer and Assistant Professor of Health Systems Design & Global Health at the Mount Sinai Health System and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She was also previously Assistant Professor at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Natalie has a MS and PhD in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University. She was a Global Health Research Fellow at the MIT-Zaragoza Logistics Center.
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