Health CASCADE
Health CASCADE is a Europe-wide research project that focuses on co-creation and is tasked with developing a set of guidelines and tools, grounded in evidence, to help researchers work with the individuals and communities to improve health and wellbeing. Co-creation is needed within the public health sector to make sure that public health interventions are tailored to the needs of the people who are at stake, and the context in which they live or work.
The aim of Health CASCADE is to foster the next generation of highly-trained research leaders to develop evidence based guiding principles, novel tools and new technologies to make co-creation an effective tool to fight complex public health problems through a European Joint Doctoral Programme.
Global health challenges confront us all as individuals and communities – from obesity to pandemics, cancer to dementia – magnified by climate change and increasing inequality. These challenges are complex problems arising from multiple interconnected factors and feedback loops, resistant to existing public health programmes.
We need new ideas and new approaches such as co-creation. By bringing together citizens, academics, businesses, and civil organisations, the project aims to co-create effective solutions to these complex problems.
Access more information on the Health CASCADE website.
The Workplace Health Co-creation study
Mira Vogelsang from Health CASCADE has been conducting several co-creation processes, each involving a series of workshops, that focus on reducing sedentary behaviour in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Glasgow, Scotland. At each workplace she facilitates a workgroup of employees who collaborate and develop actions tailored to their company.