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A 101 (or 100.5) on Systems Approaches to Capacity Building for
Community Health”
Eric Sarriot*+, Ilona Varallyay+, Ligia Paina** with thanks to Tanvi Monga*
*Name-TBD Project / Community Health and Civil Society Engagement Team
** Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
+ ICF Center for Design and Research in Sustainability (CEDARS)
Agenda
• Expose participants to first concepts in systems thinking related to capacity building in community health
Hidden Agenda
• Hear some experiences and perspectives of participants on their experience with systems thinking – whether explicit or implicit.
Agenda (other meaning)
• Less than satisfactory introduction
• Group exercises (2 or 3)
• Networks– Feedback from Groups A-B, Discussion– Short Presentation: (Ilona Varallyay)
• Causal Loop Analysis– Feedback from Group C, Discussion– Short Presentation (Ligia Paina Ph.D.)
• Wrap Up (your servant)
Conclusion 1: Systems Thinking in Community Health
• You’ve done this before; you’re doing it already.
“What has been will be again.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9 ; Starship Galactica Season 2)
• The development of development (Robert Chambers is still with us!)
Conclusion 2: Systems Thinking in Community Health
• Avoid ‘all or nothing’ thinking.
“There is just more to learn.”(Dr Who, Season 9)
• New tools, new approaches, new language (some from the 1970’s) can help us:
– Understand better
– Study better
– Achieve more
• Interest in more about systems thinking? Tell us!!!