Abstract
A lesson identified from the COVID-19 pandemic is that we need to extend existing best practice for intervention development. In particular, we need to integrate (a) state-of-the-art methods of rapidly coproducing public health interventions and messaging to support all population groups to protect themselves and their communities with (b) methods of rapidly evaluating co-produced interventions to determine which are acceptable and effective. This paper describes the Agile Co-production and Evaluation (ACE) framework, which is intended to provide a focus for investigating new ways of rapidly developing effective interventions and messaging by combining co-production methods with large-scale testing and/or real-world evaluation. We briefly review some of the participatory, qualitative and quantitative methods that could potentially be combined and propose a research agenda to further develop, refine and validate packages of methods in a variety of public health contexts to determine which combinations are feasible, cost-effective and achieve the goal of improving health and reducing health inequalities.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 1094753 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Public Health |
| Volume | 11 |
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| Publication status | Published - 23 Jun 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Many thanks to the following contributors for providing feedback on the ACE framework: James Odling-Smee (Director of Communications and Public Affairs at London Councils. Chair of the London Boroughs Directors of Communications Network). Jennifer Pearson (Lead Nurse for Shared Governance, Lead Nurse on the BSOL Vaccination Programme, University Hospitals Birmingham; Chair Chief Nursing Officer Delivery Group NHSE/I; Regional Lead Chief Nursing Officer Chief Midwifery Officer (England) Black Minority Ethnic Strategic Advisory Group West Midlands). Elisia Reid (Community Engagement Lead, Newham Council). Shakil Salam (Community Engagement Officer, NHS). Anbreen Sitara (Community-based women’s group leader).
Funding Information:
This study was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research Health Protection Research Units (NIHR HPRU) in Emergency Preparedness and Response, a partnership between UKHSA, King’s College London and the University of East Anglia, and Behavioural Science and Evaluations, a partnership between UKHSA and the University of Bristol. LY, JK, and JH are partly funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaboration West (NIHR ARC West) and NIHR HPRU in Behavioural Science and Evaluation. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 Yardley, Denford, Kamal, May, Kesten, French, Weston, Rubin, Horwood, Hickman, Amlôt and Oliver.
