About
Healthcare innovation strategist working on the adaptive interfaces care systems will need next.
I'm Christine Galligan — a healthcare innovation strategist and the founder and principal behind a body of work focused on adaptive interfaces for human flourishing. For fourteen years I've worked across healthcare delivery, digital health, behavioral science, AI, design research, and human-centered systems, inside Fortune-scale operators (CVS Health, Philips, Novant Health), inside university research (Clemson), and inside independent R&D.
The through-line is participation. Not whether the technology works — whether people will use it. Whether clinicians can stand behind it. Whether the system can carry it. Whether the people most affected had any say in what was built for them.
I help organizations answer those questions before they become adoption problems, implementation failures, or costly redesigns — and I lead a parallel research and product agenda investigating the parts of care the industry hasn't named yet.
- —350+ interviews with patients, caregivers, clinicians, and consumers
- —Longitudinal field research across home, clinical, and community settings
- —Behavioral science applied at consumer scale and bedside scale
- —AI strategy translating model capability into clinically usable systems
Areas I Work Across
What you can hire me for
- —Innovation Strategy
- —Behavioral Design
- —Healthcare Experience Design
- —Executive Advisory
What I research and build
- —Biosensing & ambient systems
- —AI-enabled adoption research
- —Adaptive care infrastructure
Current Work Architecture
Three vehicles for the work — research practice, public-interest evidence, and commercial adaptive systems.
Kutuhala Studio
Consulting practice
Kutuhala Studio — my consulting practice. Research and design work helping healthcare teams build systems people trust, adopt, and use. This is how clients work with me.
Umwelten Institute
Public-interest research + evidence
Proposed nonprofit evidence-generation body advancing healthcare systems that protect dignity and support human capacity before strain becomes crisis. Convenes practitioners, frames evidence, does not commercialize products.
SOMA Systems
Independent product + IP research
SOMA Systems — my independent product and IP research, including Somatag, a sensory interface exploring how physiological signals can support people under sustained load.
Selected Experience
- 2022 — PresentFounder & PrincipalKutuhala Studio + SOMA Systems R&D
- 2021Senior StrategistThe Linus Group
- 2019 — 2021Design & Innovation StrategistCVS Health Design & Innovation Lab
- 2018 — 2019Strategist, HealthWorks / VenturesPhilips
- 2017 — 2018Administrative Fellow / Innovation StrategistNovant Health
- 2016 — 2017Clinical Innovation / Program StrategyMassachusetts General Hospital
- 2011 — 2015Research LeadClemson University — Caregiver HRV Study