Paula Satariano Barrow
About Paula Satariano Barrow
Paula Satariano Barrow is a Product Designer with a background in public health, currently working at Primary.Health in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has held various roles in product design and health education, leveraging her expertise to enhance health outcomes through design and technology.
Work at Primary.Health
Paula Satariano Barrow has been employed as a Product Designer at Primary.Health since 2022. In this role, she applies her expertise in design to improve health outcomes through innovative solutions. Her work focuses on integrating design principles with technology to address various public health challenges.
Previous Experience in Product Design
Prior to her current position, Paula worked as a Product Designer at Sprinter Health from 2021 to 2022 in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also had a brief stint as a UX Designer while self-employed in 2020, and worked at Harvard Innovation Labs as a UX Designer for two months in 2020. These roles contributed to her skills in user experience and product design.
Background in Public Health
Paula has a strong background in public health, which significantly informs her approach to product design. She served as a Community Health Educator at WIC in 2012 and as a Health Education Program Specialist with the Peace Corps in Moldova from 2013 to 2015. Additionally, she interned with the Health & Medicine Policy Research Group focusing on Adverse Childhood Experiences in 2017.
Education and Expertise
Paula holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She furthered her education by obtaining a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Maternal and Child Health from the University of Illinois Chicago from 2016 to 2018. This educational background supports her focus on using design to tackle public health issues.
Career Development and Research
From 2016 to 2018, Paula worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. She also served as a Social Science Research Analyst at the HHS Office of Inspector General from 2018 to 2020. These positions enhanced her research skills and understanding of health policy, which she integrates into her design work.