Facilitators: Mary Hearst, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Rebecca Beeken, PhD, University of Leeds, UK
Linda Trinh, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada
Emily Hill, PhD, RDN, University of Colorado, USA
Description:
The purpose of this workshop is to provide an introduction and apply the World Café process as a tool for community engagement and action. The World Cafe crosses socioeconomic boundaries and can illuminate determinants and strategies for supporting healthy nutrition and physical activity behaviors to reduce the risk of developing cancer and improve the outcomes after a cancer diagnosis. To reduce inequalities in cancer we need to ensure we are engaging with a range of communities to support their participation in our research studies and ensure that the interventions we develop are relevant and effective across socioeconomic conditions. A World Café is a strengths-based, culturally responsive, and participatory approach for engaging stakeholders in your research that both opens the research for a broader socioeconomic base and, at the same time, works as a more informal way for individuals to share opinions. The process is adaptable and can be used for diverse topic areas ranging from answering primary questions, validating and adding to existing data collections. As part of this workshop attendees will take part in an example World Cafe to explore experiences, challenges and priorities for our research community around addressing socioeconomic inequalities in cancer within behavioral nutrition and physical activity studies.
