Leah Heiss is the Eva and Marc Besen International Research Chair in Design at Monash University; Chair of the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards; Co-chair of the Victorian Heart Institute New Technologies Grand Challenge; and Designer in Residence with the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF). Her co-design methods have been used to evolve new systems of care for low birth weight, cancer care, eating disorders, aged care, voluntary assisted dying and acquired brain injury. She is currently working with the World Health Organisation, using design strategies to improve the uptake and implementation of WHO guidelines across countries.

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Leah has presented over 100 presentations and keynotes globally on the role of design in improving the lived experience of health technologies and systems, and her wearable technology designs have been exhibited to over 700,000 people across Australia, Europe and Asia. In her education practice she focuses on design uplift across complex organisations using online co-design approaches. She is currently involved with co-designing the inputs to Victorian clinician entrepreneurship training and upskilling clinician entrepreneurs in the Monash ecosystem.

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Leah Heiss’s co-design methods have been used to evolve new systems of care for low birth weight, cancer care, eating disorders, aged care, voluntary assisted dying and acquired brain injury. She is currently working with the World Health Organisation, using design strategies to improve the uptake and implementation of WHO guidelines across countries.