Key Takeaways
- Understand why implementation success depends on systems, not just interventions
- How systems thinking changes the way implementation problems are interpreted
- Learn how practice styles influence implementation outcomes
Systems Thinking and Implementation Science
Emeritus Professor Penny Hawe will explore how systems thinking brings “background” factors into “foreground” focus. Professor Hawe will discuss how tools like ethnographic methods, narrative analysis, network analysis, and causal loop diagrams can help researchers and practitioners understand local dynamics and leverage them for positive change.
Professor Penny Hawe
About the Presenter
Penny Hawe is an Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics in the Sydney School of Public Health. She started her academic career at The University of Sydney. From 2000 to 2010 she was the Markin Chair in Health and Society at the University of Calgary where she created a large-scale program of work on the difference that complex systems thinking makes to the theory, methods, ethics and economics of population-level preventive interventions. In 2013 she returned to the University of Sydney part time, bringing a focus on system thinking to the establishment of the NHMRC Australian Prevention Partnership Centre (now part of the Sax Institute). She continues to advise on projects in the UK and US.
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