The Ecology of Innovation: Part 2 – Language
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
The Toronto Star, Canada’s most widely read newspaper known for its investigative reporting gifted anti-vaccination audiences armament by using poor
Read moreSeeing the lights in research with our heads in the clouds
Some fields stagnate because they fail to take the bold steps into the unknown by taking chances and proposing new
Read moreThe New 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.
Read moreSystems Thinking Perspectives on CQI and Public Health
Systems thinking involves taking account of where you stand, what you’re doing, and where the bounds of your influence and
Read moreSystems and Design Thinking Go to the Ballpark
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.
Read moreDesign Space in Public Health
If design is everywhere humans are and shapes our interactions in the built environment, which dictates how we interact with
Read moreDesigning for Empathy and Health
When does common sense make little sense? How do we sense-make evidence when it seems to make little sense? The
Read moreAttack on Anti-vac – Toronto Public Health vs. Jenny McCarthy
Yesterday I posted on the story of Toronto Public Health tweeting a call for its followers to voice concerns to
Read moreLow-profile public health job could mean best candidates won’t apply
If public health is important, should the presumably ‘top job’ in the field in a particular country not be highly
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