Working with Southwark Council as a Strategic Design Partner C
omuzi is one of Southwark Council’s Strategic Design Partners, initially collaborating on a discovery/alpha project at the beginning of 2020 exploring the hypothesis that digital technology could improve health and wellbeing outcomes in the borough by empowering residents to make healthier lifestyle changes. We identified evidence from Public Health England showing the success of digital public health tools, such 14
as Couch to 5k, and wanted to test if similar tools and services could meet the needs of Southwark’s most deprived communities, who experience health inequalities and naturally worse health outcomes than their more affluent counterparts in the borough. Kicking off a month before lockdown at Tooley Street, Comuzi worked with the project team to establish ways of working, address and mitigate risks, and laser focus on what the council wanted to achieve with this project, a process