AUTHOR=Yardley Lucy , Denford Sarah , Kamal Atiya , May Tom , Kesten Jo M. , French Clare E , Weston Dale , Rubin G. James , Horwood Jeremy , Hickman Matthew , Amlôt Richard , Oliver Isabel TITLE=The Agile Co-production and Evaluation framework for developing public health interventions, messaging and guidance JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health VOLUME=11 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1094753 DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2023.1094753 ISSN=2296-2565 ABSTRACT=

A lesson identified from the COVID-19 pandemic is that we need to extend existing best practice for intervention development. In particular, we need to integrate (a) state-of-the-art methods of rapidly coproducing public health interventions and messaging to support all population groups to protect themselves and their communities with (b) methods of rapidly evaluating co-produced interventions to determine which are acceptable and effective. This paper describes the Agile Co-production and Evaluation (ACE) framework, which is intended to provide a focus for investigating new ways of rapidly developing effective interventions and messaging by combining co-production methods with large-scale testing and/or real-world evaluation. We briefly review some of the participatory, qualitative and quantitative methods that could potentially be combined and propose a research agenda to further develop, refine and validate packages of methods in a variety of public health contexts to determine which combinations are feasible, cost-effective and achieve the goal of improving health and reducing health inequalities.