Seminars

January 21, 3-4 pm

Reviewing and analyzing frameworks to support Healthcare improvement – reflections from a Q 3.0 perspective

Healthcare improvement continues to face challenges in achieving sustainable change, despite decades of effort. Healthcare improvement often fails to account for the complex, adaptive and relational nature of healthcare systems, where outcomes depend on how people interact, make sense of change and co-produce solutions. Furthermore, improvement science has expanded rapidly. It draws on diverse traditions, such as implementation science, organizational learning, systems thinking, complexity science and co-production. There is a wide range of theories, models and frameworks that describe different facets of healthcare. This diversity enriches the field, but it also creates fragmentation and makes it difficult to integrate insights across levels and disciplines.

To strengthen both scholarship and practice, there is a need to clarify how theoretical perspectives can better reflect in achieving sustainable change. In a recent exploration of improvement science an invitation was made “to refine and advance mapping of the improvement landscape by identifying gaps and increasing contributions from diverse perspectives” (Reed et al., 2025: 1). Our respond is a review and analysis to support the continued development of improvement science by linking theoretical concepts more explicitly to studies of the realities of healthcare and by offering a clearer foundation for education, leadership and practice.

This is the scope of our contribution to Co-Lab, including reflections regarding the results from a Q 3.0 perspective.

Recommended reading: Reed JE, Antonacci G, Armstrong N, Baker GR, Crowe S, Harenstam KP, Hargreaves D, Jani YH, Provost L, Rejler M, Savage C, Thor J, Williams S and Woodcock T (2025) What is improvement science, and what makes it different? An outline of the field and its frontiers. Front. Health Serv. 4:1454658. doi: 10.3389/frhs.2024.1454658

Bio: Boel Andersson Gäre is adjunct senior professor at the Department of Improvement and Leadership, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University/Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and welfare/Futurum, Region Jönköping County.

Caroline Ärleskog has a PhD in Sociology and works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Improvement and Leadership, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University/Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and welfare.

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February 18, 3-4 pm

How can Co production address Societal Challenges? Advantages and challenges

The session will include a short introduction about the field and experiences of co-production among seldom heard groups.

We will also invite the participants to zoom discussions with focus on to jointly explore whether and how co-production strategies can be applied to address societal challenges.

Helena Kilander https://ju.se/en/personinfo?sign=kilhel

Anne-Marie Suutari https://ju.se/en/personinfo?sign=SUUANN

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JA is part of Co-Lab, a seminar series on co-production led by the Dartmouth Institute with an international audience. This seminar is part of that series. The network organizes seminars every month and these are open to anyone who is curious about the subject.

March 18, 2-3 pm

Two approaches to meaning-making for leading co-production: creating a holding environment for multi-stakeholder change processes

The seminar will present results from a research project about co-production leadership in healthcare. Constructive developmental theory was used to uncover two distinct ways leaders make sense of their collaborative work. A follow-up practical application of findings points to ways that a reflective practice can enhance personal growth.

Verna DeLauer, Ph.D.
Professor, College of Health & Natural Sciences, Franklin Pierce University

Bio Verna: Dr. Verna DeLauer holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Management and is a Professor at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire. She teaches a variety of courses and her research explores the processes by which individuals construct meaning and identity through their interactions with both built and natural environments.

Sofia Kjellstrom, Ph.D.
Professor of Quality Improvement and Leadership, Jonkoping University

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The seminar is in English, no registration needed, please use this link:

JA is part of Co-Lab, a seminar series on co-production led by the Dartmouth Institute with an international audience. This seminar is part of that series. The network organizes seminars every month and these are open to anyone who is curious about the subject.

April 1, 3-4 pm

From Implementation to Navigation: Using the NASSS Framework to Understand Complexity in Health System Change

Many efforts to introduce and scale innovations in healthcare are approached using a largely linear logic: problems are defined, solutions are designed, and implementation is expected to follow. However, in practice—particularly in complex areas such as mental health—these efforts often unfold in less predictable ways.

This talk will introduce the NASSS framework (Non-adoption, Abandonment, Scale-up, Spread and Sustainability) as a way of understanding and working with complexity in health system change. Drawing on empirical work from psychiatric services in Sweden, I will illustrate how complexity can become visible through this lens, and how this can support reflection, dialogue, and more adaptive approaches to development. The aim is not to provide a comprehensive walkthrough of the framework, but to open up discussion on how it might be used to better understand and navigate real-world challenges, including in contexts where co-production is central

Andreas Gremyr, PhD
Andreas Gremyr is a psychologist, researcher, and Head of Unit at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden, where he leads work on data-driven care and development within adult psychiatry. His research focuses on Learning Health Systems, complexity, and co-production, with an emphasis on how continuous feedback can support learning and improvement in healthcare. He previously held a postdoctoral position at the Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, contributing to the development of a Learning Health Network.

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JA is part of Co-Lab, a seminar series on co-production led by the Dartmouth Institute with an international audience. This seminar is part of that series. The network organizes seminars every month and these are open to anyone who is curious about the subject.