Abstract
Theme 2: Community-enabled population health and wellbeing2 Pillars: Shared values and vision, People as partners in health and care. The "Recovery and Renewal of Participation in Healthcare" project aimed to strengthen co-design capacity and resilience within the healthcare sector. It explored and investigated co-design experiences and adaptations that build capacity to enhance community engagement with a specific focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI).Keywords: Co-design, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), Capacity building, empowerment, realist synthesis.
Audience: 20 participants including health design practitioners, health researchers, policymakers, community members, and members of equity-seeking groups.
Approach: The goal of the workshop is to share learnings and build capacity in co-design strategies and techniques that can be used to develop advanced co-design practice. This will include practical recommendations and strategies to enhance co-design for healthcare change. The workshop will be anchored around findings from a realist synthesis process on diverse outcomes and mechanisms experienced in co-design practices across different contexts during the pandemic. The workshop will discuss and share ways to enhance community engagement through co-design using an EDI framework. Structure of the session:0 min. Introduction: Two Facilitators will briefly describe the Co-Design beyond Pandemics project including background to the Recovery and Renewal research and community of practice resources. This will include the realist synthesis results relating to the 9 pillars of integrated care and the incorporation of the EDI Framework.5 min. presentation of different case studies / contexts: Two facilitators will present three case studies from the Recovery and Renewal of Participation in Healthcare project aligning three major themes. Example case studies include:- Community Context and Proxy: D-DEC (Integrating marginalized groups in public health communication design at emergency dept. discharge)2- Safety: Challenging Stigma Through Storytelling, Supporting the Stillbirth Journey3- Collaborative Making: Aging and Mental Health, Addictions Don Discriminate. Fostering Local Community Engagement in St. Louis30 min. Small group dialogue: In breakout groups of five, each group will discuss strategies for engaging communities in their work and/or case studies. Case study details will be available in poster format at tables. Example prompts: What characteristics of communities did the case studies engage with that relate to the three themes? How might these strategies or techniques enhance context specific community engagement for health equity? What are some of the strategies or techniques that could enhance safety in community engagement? What are some of the strategies or techniques that could enhance collective making within community engagement? What were some of the challenges? How might we address these challenges?30 min. Large group discussion: The groups will summarize their dialogue and then open the discussion including a re-reflection on the EDI framework to allow for additional themes. 5 min. closing.
Outcomes: Findings from this workshop will be summarized in three blog posts on Co-design Beyond Pandemics community of practice . This collaborative platform is a space for design researchers and practitioners from diverse geographies and equity seeking groups to access resources and share practices and build connections. There are currently 70 members within this group.