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Facilitating learning exchange and building a community of practice to accelerate social innovation in health

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: WHAT ARE THE NEW FINDINGS?⇒ Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI), Make a Difference (MAD) Foundation and Zuellig Family Foundation (ZFF) collaboratively conceptualised the development of a Social Innovation in Health (SIH) Learning Exchange Platform that is grounded on intersectoral collaboration.It will be used for networking, sharing and co-creation among social innovators and other SIH ecosystem actors through four main processes: community of practice, database of resources and partners, forums and capacity building.⇒ A co-creative process was undertaken to conceptualise and design the platform.The series of meetings of SIHI, MAD and ZFF became a testing ground to prototype the learning exchange process and initiate the community of practice.Convergence points in expertise and experiences were identified, that is, social innovation research, community engagement, leadership and governance and innovative business models complement each other in aid of social innovation.

Source: BMJ Innovations

DOI: 10.1136/bmjinnov-2021-000882