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Current Drug Safety

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ISSN (Print): 1574-8863
ISSN (Online): 2212-3911

A Design Thinking Approach to Effective Vaccine Safety Communication

Author(s): Lea Seeber, Bettina Michl, Gabriella Rundblad, Brett Trusko, Maxim Schnjakin, Christoph Meinel, Ulrich Weinberg, Gerhard Gaedicke and Barbara Rath

Volume 10, Issue 1, 2015

Page: [31 - 40] Pages: 10

DOI: 10.2174/157488631001150407105400

Price: $65

Abstract

The highly complex and controversial topic of vaccine safety communication warrants innovative, user-centered solutions that would start with gaining mutual respect while taking into account the needs, concerns and underlying motives of patients, parents and physicians. To this end, a non-profit collaborative project was conducted by The Vienna Vaccine Safety Initiative, an international think tank aiming to promote vaccine safety research and communication, and the School of Design Thinking in Potsdam, Germany, the first school for innovation in Europe. The revolutionary concept of the Design Thinking approach is to group students in small multi-disciplinary teams. As a result they can generate ground-breaking ideas by combining their expertise and different points of view. The team agreed to address the following design challenge question: “How might we enable physicians to encourage parents and children to prevent infectious diseases?” The current article describes, step-by step, the ideation and innovation process as well as first tangible outcomes of the project.

Keywords: Communication, design thinking, eHealth, vaccination record, vaccine communication, vaccine.


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