Name: Bridging Gaps, Co-Creating Access
Start: 2025-03-17T13:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-17T14:30:00-04:00
Location: Ryder Hall

Sara Carr, Estefania Ciliotta, Michael Arnold Mages, Susan Mello and Katherine Simmonds will present their work with the Knox Clinic.
About this Event

Bridging Gaps, Co-Creating Access: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Rural Healthcare in Maine
Center for Design
1:30 – 2:30 PM

In collaboration with the Knox Clinic, Scout Labs, Bouvé College of Health Sciences and The Roux Institute.
Presentation by Sara Carr, Estefania Ciliotta, Michael Arnold Mages, Susan Mello and Katherine Simmonds.

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Over the past two years, our interdisciplinary research team composed of collaborators from experience/service design, public health, nursing, architecture, and communication has been partnering with a nonprofit clinic in rural Maine to identify, design, prototype, and evaluate innovative models of rural, community-based care through a participatory research approach. In this presentation, we will share our progress in addressing health inequities and access in rural areas through the design and implementation of a mobile healthcare van, as well as other operational and systemic interventions such as blueprints and frameworks to help healthcare providers replicate alternative ways to healthcare delivery.