Situation/Opportunity:
Gilead is working to combat stigma, educate about HIV, motivate people to get tested, get them connected to care, and encourage everyone to learn about HIV prevention and treatment options. Communities are disjointed in collaborating toward a unified effort. Patients, caregivers, individuals who could benefit from prevention, and populations most affected by HIV very often don’t have access to the resources they need. At the same time, health educators, innovators and entrepreneurs who have a lot to offer the HIV community often struggle to reach those in need. The sprint aims to end this mismatch.
Gilead is working to combat stigma, educate about HIV, motivate people to get tested, get them connected to care, and encourage everyone to learn about HIV prevention and treatment options. Communities are disjointed in collaborating toward a unified effort. Patients, caregivers, individuals who could benefit from prevention, and populations most affected by HIV very often don’t have access to the resources they need. At the same time, health educators, innovators and entrepreneurs who have a lot to offer the HIV community often struggle to reach those in need. The sprint aims to end this mismatch.
Action:
The HIV Innovation Sprint engages all parts of the HIV prevention community through events that bring HIV community leaders, state/city government, county health employees, local HIV champions, etc. together to discuss ideas to improve HIV prevention. Six workshops that I facilitated and an online community platform that I built to aid in collaboration and documentation of the Sprint, all lead to three more events and a culminating summit to introduce the final solutions.
The HIV Innovation Sprint engages all parts of the HIV prevention community through events that bring HIV community leaders, state/city government, county health employees, local HIV champions, etc. together to discuss ideas to improve HIV prevention. Six workshops that I facilitated and an online community platform that I built to aid in collaboration and documentation of the Sprint, all lead to three more events and a culminating summit to introduce the final solutions.
Result:
Community members in Miami, Birmingham, and New Orleans — through several days of design thinking workshops over 150 people contributed towards ideas/products/processes that could aid in HIV prevention at the individual level. Setting the stage for upcoming design day challenges to refine ideas and bring them to the community at large.
Community members in Miami, Birmingham, and New Orleans — through several days of design thinking workshops over 150 people contributed towards ideas/products/processes that could aid in HIV prevention at the individual level. Setting the stage for upcoming design day challenges to refine ideas and bring them to the community at large.
Defining Metric:
From zero interest to 150 community organizations entering a sustained collaboration to impact HIV prevention.
From zero interest to 150 community organizations entering a sustained collaboration to impact HIV prevention.
