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Community alliances
We identify opportunities for enabling and supporting equitable, healthy, thriving communities by improving health and wellbeing outcomes and understanding the healthy functioning of cities as complex and intertwined systems.
We achieve this by involving the community in every stage of our project work, from conceptualisation to implementation.
This approach ensures that we work within a spectrum of diverse voices, and all projects are representative and address varied perspectives and needs.
Contributions from groups such as our Citizen Youth Panel are vital in directing our research priorities and in mirroring the critical concerns of local communities. By including everyone in the conversation, we learn more about what the communities around us value and how to deliver on this. This ensures that our work makes sense at all levels, and doesn't just support academic or commercial interests.
We create social impact by:
- Investigating the social determinants of health: preventative and holistic care, social cohesion, mental health, community building, multicultural and intergenerational equity, population, and governance.
- Investigating and addressing place-based infrastructure, decision making, funding and delivery.
- Examining the relationship between infrastructure and customer (users), and infrastructure and community (regulation).
- Investigating methods for co-creating bottom up and top-down methodologies with the communities living in areas most impacted by shock events and chronic stresses, including the Pacific and Western Sydney.