Tucker Joseph D, Chikwari Chido Dziva, Tang Weiming, Jarolimova Jana, Gravett Ronnie, Goense Cornelia J D, Matoga Mitch M, Tan Rayner K J, Niaupari Steph, Morroni Chelsea, Van Der Pol Barbara
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
Saw Swee School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Sex Transm Dis. 2024 Jul 1;51(7):e31-e35. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001965. Epub 2024 Mar 6.
Designathons can be used to enhance public health training and spur innovation. A designathon is a 3-stage participatory activity that includes preparation, intensive collaboration, and follow-up activities. We organized a designathon focused on developing actionable sexually transmitted disease (STD) control strategies and examined the content of ideas resulting from an STD designathon.
For this designathon, we created four groups: early career researchers, silver group (people with >10 years of experience), travelers (people from low- and middle-income countries and those who received a conference scholarship) and a community group. Each group developed its own plan to consult members, iteratively develop ideas, and aggregate insights. Each group developed STD control strategies that were presented. Cross-cutting themes across these ideas were identified.
Designathon participants included a subset of conference participants. Cross-cutting themes from final ideas included cocreating STD interventions with end-users, using sex-positive framing, enhancing open access digital STD resources, and reducing STD stigma. Early career researchers presented a call for community ideas focusing on ending STD epidemics by increasing accessibility to STD care services among all populations. The silver group proposed digital innovations, including an AI-powered tool for testing and treatment and a social game to promote sex positivity. The traveler group conceptualized an information hub to support implementation of STD programs. Community members underscored the importance of a more human-centered approach to STD control, which reduces stigma and normalizes sex and sexual pleasure.
Sex positive campaigns and open access digital resources should be considered within STD programs. Implementation research studies are needed to evaluate these ideas.
设计马拉松可用于加强公共卫生培训并激发创新。设计马拉松是一种三阶段参与式活动，包括准备、密集协作和后续活动。我们组织了一场聚焦于制定可实施的性传播疾病（STD）控制策略的设计马拉松，并审视了一场STD设计马拉松所产生的想法内容。
对于这场设计马拉松，我们创建了四个小组：早期职业研究人员、资深组（有超过10年经验的人员）、参会人员组（来自低收入和中等收入国家的人员以及获得会议奖学金的人员）和一个社区组。每个小组都制定了自己的计划，以咨询成员、反复完善想法并汇总见解。每个小组都制定了并展示了STD控制策略。确定了这些想法中的共同主题。
设计马拉松参与者包括部分会议参与者。最终想法中的共同主题包括与终端用户共同创建STD干预措施、采用性积极框架、增加开放获取的数字STD资源以及减少对STD的污名化。早期职业研究人员呼吁征集社区想法，重点是通过增加所有人群获得STD护理服务的机会来终结STD流行。资深组提出了数字创新，包括一个用于检测和治疗的人工智能工具以及一款促进性积极的社交游戏。参会人员组构思了一个信息中心以支持STD项目的实施。社区成员强调了以更以人为本的方法进行STD控制的重要性，这可以减少污名化并使性和性愉悦正常化。
STD项目应考虑开展性积极运动和开放获取数字资源。需要进行实施研究来评估这些想法。
