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The Ecology of Innovation: Part 2 – Language

October 2, 2015October 2, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 91 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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The Power, Peril and Promise of Health Journalism

February 14, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 85 Views anti-vaccination, Ben Goldacre, CBC Radio, Gardasil HPV vaccine, health reporting, journalism, Julia Belluz, knowledge translation, media ecology, medical evidence, medicine, newspapers, public health, science, the fourth estate, The Guardian, Toronto Star, vaccines

The Toronto Star, Canada’s most widely read newspaper known for its investigative reporting gifted anti-vaccination audiences armament by using poor

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Seeing the lights in research with our heads in the clouds

July 11, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 141 Views communications, complexity, eHealth, evaluation, medicine, public health, research, social innovation, social media

Some fields stagnate because they fail to take the bold steps into the unknown by taking chances and proposing new

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The New Zombie

October 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 123 Views CDC, Clay Shirky, complex systems, contemplative inquiry, design thinking, Facebook, John Bohannon, journalism, metacognition, mindfulness, mobile phones, organizational change, public health, research, resilience, science, social media, systems thinking, The Economist, tribes, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, zombie

Information is everywhere (and if you live in cities, people might be everywhere, too) and yet the volume of information we see is overwhelmed by what we do not see. Zombies are among us like information and because of that information might be less attuned to what is going on around them. This has enormous consequences and most of it is not good.

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Systems Thinking Perspectives on CQI and Public Health

September 23, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 126 Views CENSE Research + Design, complexity, design thinking, Ontario, organizations, path dependence, presentation, public health, quality improvement, systems thinking

Systems thinking involves taking account of where you stand, what you’re doing, and where the bounds of your influence and

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Systems and Design Thinking Go to the Ballpark

September 18, 2013September 19, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 62 Views architecture, baseball, Boston, Boston Red Sox, boundaries, design, design thinking, Fenway Park, obesity, psychology, public health, social determinants of health, systems thinking, Yoni Freedhoff

A recent trip to baseball’s legendary Fenway Park provided the ideal example of understanding systems and how they can create public health problems like obesity through structural means. Being aware of these systems, their boundaries, and their activities can help us better find the causes of individual activity by looking at what encourages behaviour not just what people do.

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Design Space in Public Health

August 1, 2013August 1, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 56 Views AC4D, Andrew Dannenberg, Andrew Shea, Arcade magazine, architecture, book, built environment, design, designer, Emily Pilloton, graphic design, Howard Frumpkin, IDEO, Jon Kolko, public health, wicked problems

If design is everywhere humans are and shapes our interactions in the built environment, which dictates how we interact with

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Designing for Empathy and Health

July 29, 2013July 29, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 92 Views anti-vaccination, design, design thinking, empathy, evidence, health, health communications, health literacy, Julie Leask, language, media, public health, qualitative research, Twitter, vaccination, wicked problems

When does common sense make little sense? How do we sense-make evidence when it seems to make little sense? The

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

July 25, 2013July 25, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 65 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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Low-profile public health job could mean best candidates won’t apply

July 20, 2013July 23, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 79 Views Canada, public health

If public health is important, should the presumably ‘top job’ in the field in a particular country not be highly

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