Empowering Health Communication: Co-Designing with People with Disability

Montage of images from the Disability Reform Summit 2024, featuring diverse people with disability collaborating with academics and researchers to co-design innovative solutions for a more inclusive future. Griffith Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability Logo (bottom right corner).

📚 Authors: Dr Kelsey Chapman, Dr Connie Allen, Prof. Elizabeth Kendall AM GAICD
📅 Published: 9 February 2025
📖 Journal: Journal of Health Communication
🔗 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2462679

How can we make health communication truly inclusive? A recent scoping review by Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability researchers explores the power of co-designing health initiatives with people with disability—not just for them.

Key Insights:

Inclusive Participation: Engaging people with disabilities from the outset ensures their voices shape accessible, effective health communications.

Diverse Methods: From workshops and focus groups to participatory action research, different co-design approaches foster genuine collaboration.

Enhanced Outcomes: Inclusive approaches improve the quality of health information, empower participants, and build trust in health initiatives.

This research reinforces that co-design isn’t just best practice—it’s essential. When health communication is built with the community, it becomes more impactful, equitable, and transformative.

More Information:

Dr Kelsey Chapman
Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability
Griffith University
k.chapman@griffith.edu.au

Prof. Elizabeth Kendall AM GAICD
e.kendall@griffith.edu.au

Montage of images from the Disability Reform Summit 2024, featuring diverse people with disability collaborating with academics and researchers to co-design innovative solutions for a more inclusive future. Griffith Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability Logo (bottom right corner).



Categories: CoDesign, Kelsey Chapman, Elizabeth Kendall, Disability Inclusion, The Dignity Project, Griffith University, Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability, The Hopkins Centre, Health Communication, Inclusive Health, Participatory Action Research, Health Community, Disability, Inclusion, Digital Health, Equity
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