Leah Heiss is an award-winning designer and researcher working at the nexus of design, health, and technology. She is the Eva and Marc Besen International Research Chair in Design at Monash University, as part of Monash Art, Design and Architecture.
Leah grows the potential of practice based design research across disciplines, including Medicine and Engineering. She focusses on how design can scaffold major shifts in healthcare towards digitisation and personalisation of healthcare, while continuing her work in wearable technologies and growing a culture of design and health research.
Her health technology projects include jewellery to administer insulin through the skin for diabetics; biosignal sensing emergency jewellery; and swallowable devices to detect disease. She designed Facett, the world’s first self-fit modular hearing aid for profit-for-purpose company Blamey Saunders hears.
The design process for Facett has been acquired into the Museums Victoria heritage collection and been exhibited globally. Facett has received many accolades including the 2018 Australian Good Design Award of the Year, the 2018 CSIRO Design Innovation Award, the Premier’s Design Award 2018 (Product Design), 3 Victorian Government iAwards and Melbourne Design Award. Leah was also the recipient of a 2021 GOLD Good Design Award for the Tactile Tools co-design method.
A few points in the chit-chat:
Career in Academia
Big Vision, Trends & Whats Emerging in Healthcare
An Intrapreneurial mind
Whats an educational pathway into wearable health technology?
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