Problem Solving

In order to prime ourselves in terms of solving problems in a creative fashion we watched a couple of informative videos.  The first was regarding solving issues in the face of disagreement:

The next was an interesting look at some of the issues faced by people trying to solve the problem of global infectious disease:

After that we looked at a method of problem solving called design thinking:

Most recently we did a project called the "Marshmallow Challenge" which helped try to put design thinking into practice:

Although some of these videos don't have an exact correlation to global infectious disease we think it is important to step back and look at the process and some issues we may run into before we can get to the specific solution.