Eliah Aronoff Spencer, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
Director, Center for Health and Strategic Health Initiatives, UC San Diego Design Lab
Director, Distributed Health Lab, Qualcomm Institute
UC San Diego

Areas of Expertise: Community Powered Innovation Human Centered and Translational Design Diagnostic and Digital Therapeutic Development

Dr. Spencer is an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at UCSD and Directs the Design Lab Center for Health. He is a physician scientist with the School of Medicine and the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego.His work ranges from strengthening healthcare systems in resource limited settings to next generation biometrics and diagnostics, to participatory design for cancer in Appalachia.

Bio from Institute of Engineering in Medicine website

NIH RADx-TECH Diagnostic Award for the Development of A low cost home COVID-19 Test

NIH RADx-Radical Co-PI Discovery and Data Consortium Coordinating Center

Director of Design and Data Strategy and PI for California Exposure Notification System

Earth2.0

Earth2.0 is a vision of our world with all of us working together. We believe many hands can make even the biggest problems solvable. We see this happening now and our mission is to foster and innovate to help every citizen share their story and contribute to Earth2.0.

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UCSD physician helps build COVID-19 rapid response platform
KUSI News

Design in the wild: field notes from global health
This talk explores health challenges, bright spots and innovations in global health, and discusses how democratizing innovation (people power) can change how we tackle societal scale problems like public health and environmental stewardship.

DesignTalks: A conversation with Eliah Aronoff-Spencer

Building A Global Health Sensing Network From Star Trek-Inspired Devices