186: Accelerating Health Initiatives Through Design and Public Health with Meaghan Kennedy, MPH

Interview with Meaghan Kennedy, MPH

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Highlights from this episode:

Innovation, social entrepreneurship, and public health
Why the conflict between public health and industrial design leads innovative and impactful work
The importance of design thinking for quick, directional, and iterative work
Transitioning from an Epidemiologist at CDC to starting her own social entrepreneurship firm

Episode 186 of Public Health Careers

Meaghan Kennedy, MPH is a Founder of Orange Sparkle Ball Inc where they are an innovation and impact consultancy that accelerates initiatives in the private and public sector and works with both domestic and global partners.

Meaghan’s experiences intersect innovation, public health, and social entrepreneurship. After an epidemiology research career at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), she founded Orange Sparkle Ball.

She conferred a Bachelors of Physiology at Alma College. Then a Master of Public Health at Emory University.

After graduating, Meaghan became a Epidemiologist at the CDC. After a 7 year career at the CDC, Meaghan pursued an Industrial Design degree at Georgia Institute of Technology which she did not complete.

Meaghan founded Orange Sparkle Ball over 20 years ago. She also Founder of Spark Corps and is an Steering Committee Member for Evolve Innovation Network.