BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
This article is part of the Research TopicAdvancing Community Health: Integrating Love, Solidarity, and ResilienceView all 3 articles
Co-design Values: Public Health Perspectives
Provisionally accepted
- 1Cook County Department of Public Health, Oak Park, United States
- 2Community Health and Development Contractor, Portland, OR, United States
- 3Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, United States
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The report describes the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) Co-design Values Model from the perspective of public health professionals. The overarching goal is to improve health equity through community collaboration. The study utilized multiple data sources over 18 months (January 2024 – July 2025), including progress reports, meeting notes, and data summaries from 36 community-based organizations, to analyze qualitative and quantitative insights from the Regional Learning and Action Network Co-Design Team (RCT). The co-design process revealed an effective approach toward increased learning and capacity among public health professionals. The Co-design Values Model highlights the importance of valuing lived experiences (individual level), navigating power dynamics (organizational level), and fostering collaboration (community level). The co-design conceptual model offers a valuable framework for public health professionals to engage in authentic and equitable co-design approaches, building capacity, trust, and accountability to address health inequities.
Keywords: Public Health, co-design, health equity, public health professionals, Socioecological model (SEM)
Received: 15 Sep 2025; Accepted: 03 Dec 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Allen, Hair, Miranda, Brennan and Hatchett. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Sierra Allen
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