Tina D Purnat

Public health

Healthy information environment

Infodemic management

Digital and health policy

Health information and informatics

Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat

Public health

Healthy information environment

Infodemic management

Digital and health policy

Health information and informatics

@Salzburg Global Seminar and RWJF: Improving health knowledge systems

  • Year: 2024

What happens when you bring together a group of incredible people, all dedicated to health evidence and community knowledge, and achieve equity in health and wellbeing, and set them in a stunning built and natural environment? You ask them to be good humans, lean into vulnerability, and imagine how we can truly transform health knowledge systems—and magic happens!

Even the icebreaking turns into inspirational deep dive into shared values, collective benefits, and the very real discomfort that comes with imagining equitable systems. We’ve been exploring what it means to live with different outcomes in different communities—embracing that equitable knowledge systems don’t mean “one size fits all.”

Talk about a soul-expanding start to these four days of discussion! I’m here at the Salzburg Global Seminar and RWJF‘s workshop on “Centering on Equity: Transforming the Health Science Knowledge System”, contributing a project showcase on the information environment and health and participating in a panel on moving beyond traditional, medicalized knowledge frameworks.

But this week is about so much more—it’s about the generative, groundbreaking conversations sparking new ideas and commitments for the future of more equitable systems of evidence and knowledge.

Here’s a beautiful example of how our talented generative scribe, Déline Petrone, captured the essence of our shared commitments as we head into this week-long journey.

 

See the commentary from the worship, and a quote I contributed:

… “as Tina D. Purnat, Prajna Leadership Fellow and DrPH Student at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, highlighted, “our understanding of ‘community’ and ‘knowledge’ needs to evolve to consider modern digitized societies. Communities are not homogeneous groups; they contain diverse, intersecting identities, many of which remain marginalized. Both online and offline environments shape communities, and evolving knowledge production methods to capture their needs, particularly in digital spaces, is essential for equity-centered public health in the 21st century. We must not overlook the potential of digital spaces to engage communities in shaping the questions we ask, the evidence we collect, and the solutions we design and implement. Technology can broaden participation in health knowledge production beyond data collection by elevating voices at scale and empowering communities to drive evidence creation and policy design in meaningful ways.” 

 

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