Jerry Koh

Jerry Koh is the manager at MaRS Solutions Lab, a public and social innovation lab that helps tackle complex social and economic challenges. The Lab works with citizens, innovators and partners across society to develop, prototype and scale new solutions. Jerry is a systems designer and foresight strategist with a background in public policy and healthcare administration. He leads the development and application of systems thinking, design thinking and foresight tools for the lab and its partners. His projects include:

• Utility Transformation: Foresight & Scenario Planning – with five Ontario electricity utilities and IESO [http://goo.gl/OCR37c]
• Healthcare Innovation Procurement by Co-Design – designing better procurement processes that balances innovation and accountability [http://goo.gl/fv33Kp]
• Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD5) – as co-chair of a unique convening aiming to accelerate the convergence of design, social, and technology to address wicked social problems [http://www.rsd5.org/
• WellAhead – a J.W. McConnell Family Foundation initiative helping schools and partners across Canada design social emotional wellbeing into their communities [http://WellAhead.ca]
• NouLab – New Brunswick’s public and social innovation lab program supporting cross-sector inter-disciplinary teams in addressing the province’s most pressing social, environmental, and economic challenges [http://www.noulab.org]
• MyHealth – an initiative to build a gateway and ecosystem to enable smart disclosure for citizens to consent and share their personal health data (collected by the healthcare system) meaningfully with families and solution providers [https://www.marsdd.com/myhealth/]