Design Lab with Rolf Parker: Designing a CNN Watch Party & Community Gathering

Public health advocate Rolf Parker directs Public Health Response To Research Ltd (PER) in Brattleboro, Vermont. In this Design Lab, he works with Erica Marx to design a CNN watch party and community gathering.

Rolf has spent years working on youth vaping, cancer risk, and the commercial determinants of health. CNN interviewed him, then spent two months investigating youth access to vaping products, emerging evidence linking vaping to cancer, regulatory capture, and tobacco industry interference in research and policy. The final angle of the story isn't known yet. This event brings together the people who care about this work, ahead of it airing.

The Design Challenge

Many of the people in this network know Rolf but don't know each other. He wants to introduce them, and increase the odds that new collaborations form out of those introductions.…