World Café: Health Consumer Engagement

The World Café Consumer Engagement is a proposed event operating at least 2 times per year. Once in Semester 1, and again in Semester 2. The purpose of this event is to engage consumers from the local area of Morayfield and Caboolture, to better understand the enablers and barriers to primary healthcare service access.

For example, services access includes primary urgent care, general practice, allied health, mental health services and clinical trials. The consumer group will support onsite tenants who want to engage in consumers on a particular topic (i.e. enablers to join an exercise group, participation in clinical trials, increasing health literacy about cancer or cardiac events, support for domestic and family violence victims-survivors, health system experiences for caregivers).

The role

If you decide to take on greater responsibility for outputs, your hours can be increased to match the hours needed for your engagement program. Examples of outputs includes:

• Sending out the agenda and taking notes as secretary of the online meetings
• Becoming co-leader on the day(s) of the event
• Help to write a government or industry report about consumer feedback
• If research ethics applies to the event, become a member of the research team to analyse data, interpret findings and write a manuscript for publication.

Parking is limited on site - up to 4 hours free. Preparing for the World Café will include up to 4x online meetings (4 hours), 1-2-day event at site location (6-12 hours + your travel time), and up to 4x online meetings (4 hours) post event to debrief and progress event reports.