Co-Designing Digital Health Solutions with Refugee Communities to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Literacy

Australia is home to over 300 hundred different language communities, and on average, three in four people speak another language at home other than English. Despite this, there remains a chronic under-funding and under-resourcing of services that could help increase culturally and linguistically diverse people’s trust in the healthcare system, improving their health literacy and supporting them to engage further and in an enhanced manner with local, preventive healthcare services. This thesis is a culmination of research focused on improving the health of women from migrant and refugee backgrounds, applying principles of equity-based design thinking through the development of Shifra.