Advancing Injury and Violence Prevention Research through Action Inquiry
While public health practitioners increasingly look to system-science approaches to enhance the impact and reach of public health interventions, few professional development or training programs exist to support them in building and enacting the necessary skills for applying these approaches. During this session, we’ll explore how we used Action Inquiry as a method to develop individual and group capacity to enact systems thinking among injury and violence prevention practitioners as well as how we evaluated the group and what we learned during the process.
We hope participants will leave with:
• Enhanced understanding of the full range of capacities and skills needed to apply systems thinking;
• Awareness of the methodological components that facilitated building these skills; and
• Curiosity about potential implications and opportunities for their praxis and public health work
