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

  1. Lecturer

    Stanford d.school

    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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