The award-winning CHAT (CHoosing All Together) tool engages those without a background in health or health care in informed deliberations to make tradeoffs, individually and in groups, between competing needs for limited resources and learn about the consequences of those tradeoffs. CHAT has been adapted to various priority-setting needs across the U.S. and internationally, including health insurance coverage, health research priorities, social spending that affects health and more. Research demonstrates that CHAT, co-designed with community partners, results in effective deliberations. For easier and more widespread use our community-academic partnership will collaborate with other partnerships to develop efficient, effective dissemination processes and resources.

Learn more about CHAT at a special webinar, Engaging Communities in Setting Priorities for Health: Disseminating a Successful Method, hosted by Systems for Action on Wednesday, May 1st at 10am.

Presenters:
Susan Dorr Goold, MD, MHSA, MA, FACP
Professor of Internal Medicine and Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan

Zachary Rowe, BBA
Executive Director
Friends Of Parkside

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Systems for Action (S4A) is a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that is housed in the Department of Health Systems, Management and Policy. S4A research builds a Culture of Health by rigorously testing new ways of connecting the nation’s fragmented medical, social, and public health systems.