SALUS - Conference European Healthcare Design 2021

Preliminary Programme

EHD 2021: Programme launch webinar – 28 April 2021

To mark the launch of this year’s programme, we are hosting a free webinar later this month, which will focus on the plenary theme of this year’s congress: ‘Creative destruction: Design innovation in the face of existential threats’.

Preliminary Programme

Programme to be announced soon

The Preliminary Programme for the 7th European Healthcare Design 2021 Congress (EHD 2021) will launched in the week beginning 12 April.

Awards

EHD2021 Awards – Judging in progress

The Call for Entries to the European Healthcare Design Awards 2021 is now closed and evaluation is underway.

Quality improvement

How will healthcare design in China be impacted by social and health policies and demographic and population health trends?

Poster pdf

Presenters: Sophie Crocker et al.

Mobile health

The digital divide: examining the use and access to e-health based technologies by millennials and older adults

Poster pdf

Presenters: Delana Theiventhiran et al.

Arts and health

How to please everybody: making art for toddlers and teens across multiple conditions at Evelina London Children’s Hospital

Poster pdf

Presenters: Louisa Williams et al.

Plenary theme

Creative destruction: Design innovation in the face of existential threats

In a tumultuous year when the resilience of healthcare globally has been tested to the limit by the pandemic, the pressure to adopt a climate-smart development path for designing, building, operating and investing in health systems and infrastructure has also increased exponentially.

EHD 2020 Keynote plenary

EHD 2020: Designing for population and planetary health

The 6th European Healthcare Design Congress – the first-ever delivered virtually, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and necessary restrictions on social gatherings – kicked off with a hard-hitting opening plenary looking at designing for population and planetary health within the context of climate change and COVID-19.

EHD 2020 Keynote plenary

EHD 2020: The health gap – building a healthy and health-creating society

The 6th European Healthcare Design Congress continued on day two with another plenary of keynote talks, exploring wider issues around health, wellness, life expectancy, health inequalities, and how technology may be deployed to address these problems.