Stacey Chang

Design Institute for Health

Stacey Chang is a designer of new creative solutions to age-old dilemmas in health. He focuses on building complex adaptive systems that can respond to the dynamic challenge of producing health in human society, and currently advises a broad array of global and domestic organizations seeking to build more sustainable, equitable, and effective models.  Most recently, he served as the Chief Product Officer at Harbor Health. Previously, Stacey served as the Founding and Executive Director of the Design Institute for Health at the University of Texas at Austin. The Design Institute was a first-of-its-kind institution, dedicated to creating systemic human-centered solutions in clinical and community contexts. Embedded as an integrated part of an operating health system and a medical education and training program, the Institute considered topics as broad as the design of health products and services, the built environment, integration of social and medical interventions, the structure of global health campaigns, and new models for societal health.

Before his academic tenure, Stacey served as the Managing Director of the Healthcare practice at IDEO, the global design and innovation firm. Clients included governments, research institutions, hospitals, pharma, insurance, medtech, and all the upstarts trying to rewrite the script, in both established and emerging markets.

Stacey is widely published, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM Catalyst, Harvard Business Review, and Politico. He has served as a TEDMED Editorial Advisory Board member, a Thought Leader for NEJM Catalyst, an Eisenhower Fellow, and an advisor to the Global Delivery arm of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He holds degrees in engineering from MIT and Stanford.