Frontiers in Public Health (Jun 2023)

The Agile Co-production and Evaluation framework for developing public health interventions, messaging and guidance

  • Lucy Yardley,
  • Lucy Yardley,
  • Lucy Yardley,
  • Lucy Yardley,
  • Lucy Yardley,
  • Sarah Denford,
  • Sarah Denford,
  • Sarah Denford,
  • Atiya Kamal,
  • Tom May,
  • Tom May,
  • Tom May,
  • Jo M. Kesten,
  • Jo M. Kesten,
  • Jo M. Kesten,
  • Clare E French,
  • Clare E French,
  • Dale Weston,
  • G. James Rubin,
  • Jeremy Horwood,
  • Jeremy Horwood,
  • Jeremy Horwood,
  • Matthew Hickman,
  • Matthew Hickman,
  • Richard Amlôt,
  • Richard Amlôt,
  • Richard Amlôt,
  • Isabel Oliver,
  • Isabel Oliver

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1094753
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11

Abstract

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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.

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