TY - JOUR T1 - Improving the reporting of health research involving design: a proposed guideline JF - BMJ Global Health JO - BMJ Global Health DO - 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002248 VL - 5 IS - 2 SP - e002248 AU - Alessandra N Bazzano AU - Shirley D Yan AU - Jane Martin AU - Emma Mulhern AU - Eleanor Brown AU - Anne LaFond AU - Ledia Andrawes AU - Tracy Pilar Johnson AU - Shilpa Das Y1 - 2020/02/01 UR - http://gh.bmj.com/content/5/2/e002248.abstract N2 - Summary boxDesign is being used more frequently in global health practice but is not reported on sufficiently for transparency, evaluability and wider dissemination.Reporting guidelines are useful in improving the quality and quantity of dissemination of work in peer-reviewed literature for global health.Building on available literature and current practice in design for global health, we present a reporting guideline that can be used by scholars and practitioners applying design in their work, and invite input on this work.We present draft guidance which we recommend for reporting on design for global health in order to improve the evidence base for design in global health.The contribution of design to optimising global health interventions is increasingly recognised.1 The field of applied design is diverse and encompasses technical, creative and social skills and mindsets2; design may be carried out by expert designers or by ‘diffuse’ designers.3 Design for global health may involve design thinking,4 human-centred design,5 service design and codesign. And the use of design for global health has especially been promoted in relation to the concept of social innovation.6 7 There is already a tradition in global health of using approaches such as transdisciplinarity, perspective taking or empathy, working with participants from across the spectrum of needs, iterating and creating products or services that will improve the lives of those affected.8 For example, some global health researchers actively seek to include the community of those who are experiencing health challenges into research in a participatory way.Design seeks to accomplish a similar goal but with different perspectives, tools and strategies, and with a focus on innovation while recognising the potentially competing needs to reinvent versus innovate in the context of sustained existing knowledge and practice. There is a need to use design when … ER -