MacEwan's COVID Special Response team is hosting a design sprint to crowd source research questions that would serve as a pool of knowledge to support practice in times of crisis. Following the collection of community-driven questions, the team will run a hackaton with MacEwan researchers who will conduct research, collate data, and generate findings where possible to meet the needs of the community.

This approach seeks to have minimal impact on the time and resources of both community partners and researchers, while providing maximum supportive capacity for community partners who find themselves already stretched thin. While we hope to engage a wide array of community providers with this work, our team wants to pay particular attention to those providers working to support vulnerable communities.