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We would like to contribute to this roundtable from the perspective of (public) health where revision of research assessment is greatly needed in light of current and future health challenges. We work in Bridge2Health, a Dutch consortium for CS as one of the key methodologies in the health domain.

Abstract

We would like to contribute to this roundtable from the perspective of (public) health, a domain that is logically alert when it comes to amendments to ethical research assessment, but also that is in great need to revise these assessments. Current health challenges revolve around cost and personnel manageability, two aspects that could be greatly alleviated if more focus was on e.g. prevention. For prevention however, it is vital to include citizens/patients in research as they are the ones with intimate, experiential knowledge of their own urgencies and specific contexts. CS could also have a potentially huge effect on the vast lack of transfer between theory and practice that is pervasive in the (medical) health domain and which poses an enormous loss of finances and effort. In order to do this, future research will have to incorporate various systems and domains, of which we think the citizen should be the centre.

We approach the above from the perspective of Bridge2health, a Dutch consortium (2023-2030) working on a trajectory to position Citizen Science as one of the key methodologies in the health domain. We are three Universities of Applied Sciences combined and connect with practice and citizens in our experimental Living Labs in our respective regions. Our two other main foci are quality/ethical research assessment procedures and education of citizens/students/researchers and professionals in a wide variety of domains.