About Me

Me

My name is Cameron Norman and I am a designer, a scientist, an educator and a health promotion professional who is passionately committed to using design and systems thinking to make sense of our world and address complex health problems.

I am the Principal of CENSE Research + Design, a social innovation consultancy group and design studio that helps organizations apply systems thinking, creativity and foresight to engage their teams, clients and the public more effectively.

I draw on the science of systems, design strategies and visualization methods, program evaluation, contemplative inquiry and psychology in my approach to working with clients. Teaching, learning and engaging is what my work is about.

I am also an Assistant Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto where I have taught courses in health behaviour change, program evaluation and systems science perspectives on public health.

I hold an undergraduate honours and Masters degree in psychology, a PhD in public health, and did my post-doc in systems thinking and knowledge translation. I am currently completing a part-time professional Masters program in Design at OCADU looking at strategic foresight and innovation.

I promote my own health and wellbeing and love to eat as well as cook all types of cuisine. Living in the most multicultural city in the world (Toronto, Canada) gives me more opportunities to do this than I can fully appreciate. This hobby is complemented by my attempts at becoming a better barista and home coffee roaster, which is something I enjoy doing and learning about immensely. I’m also an avid movie goer and booklover. I am a visual artist and am always trying to get better at expressing ideas through different media. I relish urban life, but love the outdoors, engage heavily with social media, yet prefer the intimacy that the company of a few close friends and colleagues offer and laughter that comes from such interactions.

Some have called me the health designer, but I prefer just to be called Cameron or Cam.

Contact me at:

cdnorman [at] cense.ca

+416.854.3805

Follow me on Twitter: @cdnorman

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