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Presenters: Lisa Hall, Andrew Lau, Davoud Pourmarzi, Yukiko Ezure, Daniel Exeter, Eunice Okyere
Increasing epidemiological and public health capacity is a complex challenge that no single discipline can solve alone. This interactive workshop introduces design thinking as a practical approach for tackling this issue. Through short case studies and hands-on group activities, participants will work through the five phases of design thinking — empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test — using a toolkit being developed by SAAFE CRC with UNEP.
Participants will:
- Strengthen their understanding of regional progress, gaps and opportunities to improve epidemiological and public health capacity
- Learn about the new CAPHIA competency framework and consider implications for workforce and educational curriculum
- Learn how to use human-centred design thinking in their work
- Foster collaboration and a commitment to strengthen strategies to improve epidemiological and public health capacity.
- Develop a roadmap for implementation of strategies/ next steps
This workshop is supported by the CAPHIA Competency Renewal project and the CAPHIA-AEA Network for Designing Learning in Epidemiology (CANDLE)
Workshop facilitators
Facilitation team has expertise in epidemiology and public health teaching, design thinking and curriculum development.
- Prof Lisa Hall (University of Queensland and CAPHIA Board member)
- Assistant Professor Eunice Okyere (Fiji National University)
- Professor Daniel Exeter (University of Auckland)
- Dr Yukiko Ezure (University of Queensland)