About Sheba

Sheba Mathew

Sheba is a user experience researcher at Manta Product Development, where she leverages mixed-methods research to help companies rapidly unearth customer insights and develop human-centered products, with a focus on medical devices and digital health. To define and validate user personas and feature requirements, she draws on a variety of digital and in-person tools, including contextual inquiry, interviews, diary studies, surveys, digital experiments, and usability evaluations that ensure compliance with the FDA’s Human Factors Guidance.

Sheba has over 10 years experience in healthcare and life sciences, including work at the National Institutes of Health, Boston Children’s, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, and the Broad Institute, where she guided physicians and researchers in prototyping digital health technologies. She also leads user research and product development for Jamii Life, an elder care start-up backed by Harvard, MIT, and Oxford.

Sheba is a graduate of Harvard University, where she studied anthropology and life sciences, and where she was awarded the Hoopes Prize for ethnographic research on community health in South Africa.

Awards

Yale CBIT Healthcare Hackathon Award, 2019
Hoopes Prize: Most Outstanding Senior Thesis, 2014
Weatherhead Center Associate Award, 2012