AboutI'm a PhD candidate at the University of California at Berkeley, working with Professor Alice Agogino as a member of her research group. My primary interest is applying human-centered product design methods to rural and international health - and evaluating these methods in practice. See my curriculum vitae for more information. I received my Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
Recent activityOn Thurs-6-Dec-2007 I gave a public research talk at the Amercian Center for Mongolian Studies (National University of Mongolia): "Transition, Technology, and Community Health Workers: Bagiin Emch in Mongolia".Colleague Tsedmaa B. presented the following paper at The XXth Asian and Oceanic Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Tokyo, 21-25 Sep 2007): "ICT-Supported Case Management System for Rural Health in Mongolia"I'm conducting research in Mongolia for all of 2007 and am maintaining a blog - Design Research Mongolia - on research and other goings-on. "Serial Hanging Out: Rapid Ethnographic Needs Assessment in Rural Settings" (with P. Altankhuyag and D. Amarsaikhan) was presented at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Beijing (July 2007). I am a contributor to THDBlog, a forum for discussing issues relevant to technology, health, and development. Making Sight Affordable (with M. Ibrahim, A. Bhandari, P. Balakrishnan) has been published in Innovations (MIT Press). The case discussion is provided by V. Kasturi Rangan, of the Harvard Business School. See full issue. "Peering into the black box: A holistic framework for innovating at the intersection of ICT and health" (book chapter, with M. Ibrahim, B. Bellows, A. Bhandari) has been published in Information Communication Technologies and Human Development: Opportunities and Challenges (ISBN 1-59904-057-3). |
Research InterestsDesign methodology: ethnographic approaches to design, design and international development, relation of design to technology evaluationDesign research: technology and rural health, information and communication technologies for development, new media in education |
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Graduate Coursework@UCB: International Maternal and Child Health, Qualitative Research Methods, Intervention Trial Design, ICT for Development, Delivery of Healthcare in the Developing World, Agent-based Modeling, Statistical Learning Theory, Mathematical Methods in Engineering, Computer Networks, Solid Modeling, Knowledge-based Systems, Product Design, Engineering Materials@MIT: Techniques in Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation, Algorithms, Information & Probability Theory, Engineering Mathematics |
LinksCurriculum vitaeTHDBlog, a collaborative blog on technology, health & development Mongolia blog: Design Research Mongolia MOTTO is an independent zine published by a friend containing brief maxims designed to encourage readers to adopt a new perspective if only for a short period of time. MOTTO is printed on a postcard and sent to subscribers every month. photos: summer travels 2004 | roadtrip | New Mexico | Guatemala 2005 former site (MIT, 1995-) FAQ for prospective students Hmoob: I built this utility to help me better understand the mapping between Hmoob (Hmong) words and tones If you find it useful or have feedback about how to improve it, please email me. |
Contactprecede {me[dot]berkeley[dot]edu} with {jaspal[at]} |
| created August 2003 :: last updated December 2007 |