Monday, April 28, 2025

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Federation Ballroom North

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Overview

Scaling-up chronic disease prevention initiatives in community settings with equity

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There is no additional cost for attending the workshops but you will need to register as space is limited - To register go to https://www.prevention2025.com/program/workshops Hosted by: University of Newcastle Facilitated by: Dr Anna Rayward - University of Newcastle Co-Presenters: - Associate Professor Rachel Sutherland, MRFF Research Fellow - University of Newcastle - Dr Jannah Jones, Research Fellow - University of Newcastle Description: The content and activities of this workshop will help address the growing calls for an equity approach to permeate throughout implementation and scale-up of health promotion programs, policies and practices, to improve health outcomes and promote health equity globally. Format: (i) Presentation on main concepts and current evidence in the scale-up field and consideration for achieving equity during scale-up. (ii) A case study about the scale-up of a nutrition intervention in schools will be presented to highlight the processes, research and evaluation methods use in scale-up. (iii) a. Presentation on frameworks and planning tools and their application in the field of scale-up. (iii) b. Group activity: participants will be provided with a case study of a chronic disease prevention program and will use this to complete The Intervention Scalability Assessment Tool (ISAT). This tool will enable participants to assess the program’s current scalability and identify gaps in knowledge about domains or areas which may require focus/change to improve scalability. Participants will then discuss the lowest scoring domain for their project, determine whether similarities were identified across groups and think of possible solutions or ideas of how they may address this scalability issue. (iv) Presentation on how participants can map identified barriers and select appropriate scale-up strategies for their initiative using existing methods and taxonomies. Learning Objectives: - Develop an understanding of the importance of scaling-up chronic disease prevention initiatives. - Learn practical approaches to implementation and scale-up processes, research and evaluation. - Understand the common indicators for scale-up process, outputs/outcomes and results/impacts and methodologies used to monitor and evaluate scale-up. - Learn techniques to map scale-up barriers using existing taxonomies to guide the selection of appropriate scale-up strategies.

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