Original Article: Method to Engage Invested Partners to Co-Create Feasible and Sustainable Approaches to Design and Implement Cancer Prevention and Control Tools

“Method to Engage Invested Partners to Co-Create Feasible and Sustainable Approaches to Design and Implement Cancer Prevention and Control Tools.”

April 2026

Research Involvement and Engagement

Russell Glasgow, PhD, Research Professor of Family Medicine at CU Anschutz, co-authored “Method to Engage Invested Partners to Co-Create Feasible and Sustainable Approaches to Design and Implement Cancer Prevention and Control Tools,” published in Research Involvement and Engagement.

This study used Co-Creation for Health Equity (CO-4 Health Equity) to engage with invested partners—including doctors, nurses, medical assistants, clinical office staff, and patients—in primary care and cancer clinics to adapt workflows and strategies for implementing cancer prevention and control tools.

From the article:

“A core tenet of implementation science is early planning for implementation with invested partners. For health systems, aligning workflows and strategies to the local context and ensuring that the intervention’s change mechanism meets local priorities are critical for successful implementation. This paper describes a participatory engagement method to design and adapt cancer prevention and control tools (interventions) to promote whole-health and aligned workflows and strategies, focusing on health equity, termed Co-creation for health equity (CO-4 Health Equity). We illustrate this novel method with primary care (prevention) and oncology (treatment) case examples.”

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