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Beautiful Work

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 352 Views aesthetics, creativity, design, employee engagement, health promotion, wellbeing, workplace

Making your world and work beautiful has tangible benefits for performance and wellbeing. It’s not trivia to focus on aesthetics.

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Talking About Mental Health at Work

October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 977 Views health, health promotion, mental health, podcast, wellbeing, workplace

Our mental health and well-being affect our work above everything. Taking care of ourselves is not an option; it’s essential.

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The Ecology of Innovation: Part 2 – Language

October 2, 2015October 2, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 504 Views cancer control, communication, health communication, health promotion, innovation, innovation ecology, knowledge exchange, knowledge integration, knowledge translation, mindfulness, organizational mindfulness, public health, research, sensemaking, social innovation

Although Innovation is about producing value through doing something new or different than before, the concept is far from simple

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Attack on Anti-vac – Toronto Public Health vs. Jenny McCarthy

July 25, 2013July 25, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 430 Views anti-vaccination, evidence, health communications, health promotion, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Ghanie-Opondo, Penn and Teller, public health, science, social media, Toronto Public Health

Yesterday I posted on the story of Toronto Public Health tweeting a call for its followers to voice concerns to

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Public Health and Social Media: Catching Fire From Small Sparks

July 24, 2013July 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 652 Views Andre Picard, Cameron Norman, CENSE Research + Design, Globe and Mail, health communications, health promotion, Jenny McCarthy, journalism, knowledge transfer, Marshall McLuhan, media, media ecology, network theory, population health, public engagement, research, social media, social networks, Toronto, Toronto Public Health, Twitter, vaccination, youth

Public health is regrettably not a field that I often think of when I consider powerful examples of using social

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Evaluating Health Promotion Social Media Strategies for Public Health Impact

April 11, 2013April 11, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 462 Views developmental evaluation, evaluation, health promotion, public health, social media, strategy

I recently spoke at an interactive workshop presentation at the 2013 Ontario Public Health Convention (TOPHC) looking at social media

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Contemplating Better Public Health: Perspective is Everything

May 31, 2012January 8, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 666 Views cigarette use, contemplative inquiry, design, health promotion, mental health, mindfulness, perception, public health, Rory Sutherland, tobacco control

How might we apply the lessons from cigarette use to mental health promotion? How might we design programs, spaces, places, and social conventions that promote the quiet contemplative acts that come from taking that cigarette break and offer potentially great value to tobacco users without creating harmful effects for others?

Engaging design, complexity and imagining the systems that influence them both might yield considerable insight into how we manage other public health problems and how we might better promote mental health in the protection of physical well-being.

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Social Media and Health: Leaders(hip) and Followers(hip)

May 18, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 486 Views complexity, creativity, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, eHealth, evaluation, Facebook, health, health promotion, healthcare, innovation, medicine, organizational change, organizational design, public health, social media, systems thinking

Systems thinking, design thinking, developmental evaluation, creativity, networks and innovation: these are the keywords for health in the coming years. They are as author Eric Topol calls the dawning of the creative destruction of medicine. The public is already using social media for health and now the time has come for health (care, promotion and protection) systems to get on board and make the changes necessary to join them.

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Have We Turned the Page on Social Science Research for Health?

May 15, 2012May 15, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 335 Views funding, health promotion, knowledge translation, public health, research, research funding, science policy, social science

What will our health landscape look like without the ability to take what we know and translate it into action? Worse yet, what if we simply are unable to even know what to do because the research and evidence isn’t there in the first place to translate into anything? Without another turn towards something more positive, we are about to find out.

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Disruption by Design

March 13, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 388 Views Clayton Christensen, design, disruptive innovation, education, graphic design, health, health promotion, human services, infographics, innovation, psychology, public health, social determinants of health, social innovation, social work, technology

If we are to expect that the fields most connected to social action and the promotion of wellbeing are to contribute to our betterment in the future, they need to change. Disruptive design for programs, services and the ways we fund such things is what is necessary if these fields are to have benefit beyond themselves. Long past are the days when doing good was something that belonged to those with a title (e.g., doctor, health promoter, social worker) or that what we called ourselves (e.g., teacher) meant we did something else unequivocally (e.g., educate). Now we are all teachers, all health promoters, all designers, and all entrepreneurs if we want to be. Some will be better than others and some will be more effective than others, but by disrupting these ideas we can design a better future.

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