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Dr. Diane Finegood works with the application of systems thinking and dialogue to address complex problems across a broad range of topics with a particular focus on health systems and public health. Dr. Finegood views dialogue as an important tool in the application of systems thinking as it helps to build a shared understanding of the challenge and supports problem resolution.
Dr. Finegood’s recent work has been supporting dialogue to come to fruition as a first step in addressing complexity in health and public health including, this has included:
- Facilitating a series of six dialogues on the state of systems thinking as applied to public health as co-chair of an expert advisory group for the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the UK Academy of Medical Sciences
- Leading the creation of and facilitating more than 20 online dialogues as part of a COVID-19 Community Resilience Network
- Facilitating the wider public on the complex nature of COVID-19 exploring its many dimensions as a wicked problem
- As faculty for the winter session Semester in Dialogue with a thematic focus on wicked problems
Dr. Finegood also supports and participates in several communities of practice including: Cohort-based experiential learning faculty and a group of Health System Impact Fellows. Dr. Finegood posts regularly on LinkedIn on these topic areas and can be connected with there.
Selected Media & Publications
Can We Build an Evidence Base on the Impact of Systems Thinking for Wicked Problems? (2020, "Comment on “What Can Policy-Makers Get Out of Systems Thinking? Policy Partners’ Experiences of a Systems-Focused Research Collaboration in Preventive Health”)
Systems approaches to complex/wicked problems (2020, panel presentation, University of Toronto Designing Healthcare for the Future)
What I'm learning about remote teaching (SFU VP Academic Faculty Feature, February 2021)
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