Steve Downs
Co-Founder at Building H
- Role
- Lecturer at Stanford d.school
- Location
- Princeton, NJ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Steve Downs
Avid, boundary-spanning generalist and former philanthropy executive with wide-ranging experience, including program design, program strategy development and assessment, grant making operations, and information technology strategy and management. Broad expertise in health care and public health, with specialized expertise in health IT, particularly the role of consumer technology in health. Career roles have emphasized sparking and leading change, innovation, collaboration, systems thinking, intellectual versatility, multi-disciplinary approaches and translation of ideas across sectors.
Experience
Lecturer
Mar 2022 — Present · Palo Alto, CA, US
Working with two colleagues to design and teach d.E.S22: Upstreaming Health, a course in which students learn how to see health as system, exploring the role of behaviors in the context of the factors that influence them. In addition to learning about different perspectives on the multiple determinants of health, students practice systems design techniques in a series of projects.Previously co-designed and co-taught HUMBIO 128D: Systems Design in Health, a design seminar that explored public health through culture and business.(Winter, 2021)
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science, Technology and Policy
1990 — 1992
Yale University
Bachelor of Science, Physics and Applied Physics
1982 — 1986
Skills
- Public Speaking
- Strategy
- Facilitation
- Web 2.0
- Program Development
- Strategy Facilitation
- Social Media
- Information Management
- Healthcare Information Technology
- IT Strategy
- Obesity
- Grants
- Public Policy
- Policy
- Informatics
- Quantified Self
- Government
- Nonprofits
- Personal Health
- Philanthropy
- Healthcare
- Program Management
- Personal Health Records
- Public Health
- Health
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