Recovery and renewal of co-design in healthcare by‍ Lariena Kumar, Caylee Raber, Logan Wilkinson, and Nadia Beyzaei

Over the last 10 years, health systems and services have increased the use of co-design practices to engage stakeholders, relying on close engagement with people and health providers. The pandemic hindered this close engagement and led to rapid adaptations in co-design practices and techniques.

Recovery and Renewal aims to address issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion in post-COVID recovery through the development of capacity building resources in emerging co-design techniques.

For this workshop, the community of practice is a specific space of interest; it is a collaborative initiative for design practitioners from diverse geographies and perspectives to come together to share practices, build connections, and access resources with the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion in the forefront in an effort to create more inclusive and robust co-design practices in healthcare research. It is a space for design or healthcare professionals with at least some experiential knowledge of co-design in healthcare research to contribute to and learn from this excursion into theory.