Winter 2023 Featured Publications

For those eager to use or curious to explore the many faces of the powerful and transformative Positive Deviance approach, you will find that the following new case studies and publications contain the many ways and sectors this approach has been applied.


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Collective Wisdom on Positive Deviance: Learning Handbook Through 36 Q&A and Cases

By Positive Deviance Japan

The PD Japan network was formed in 2011 out of enthusiasm for learning Positive Deviance. Since then, they have been organizing monthly meetings, asking questions to one another to better understand key concepts and find out effective approaches to utilizing PD.

This book is a collection of such questions that have kept coming back to PD Japan and thus are expected to be useful for novices and veterans of PD thinking and practice alike. It is for all practitioners and researchers at different levels of expertise and will surely guide them through their respective PD journeys.

Featured Publications:

Translating a theory-based positive deviance approach into an applied tool: Mitigating barriers among health professionals (HPs) regarding infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines

By R. Cohen, A. Gesser-Edelsburg, A. Singhal, S. Benenson & A. E. Moses

Incorporating positive deviance into comprehensive remediation projects: A case study from artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the municipality of Andes, Colombia

By M. Schwartz, K. M. Smits, J. Smith, T. J. Phelan & O. Restrepo

Identifying nutrition-sensitive development options in Madagascar through a positive deviance approach

By A. S. Rafanomezantsoa, C. Coral, N. Randrianarison, C. Kubitza, D. Randriamampionona, H. Andriamaniraka, S. Sieber, S. Tojo-Mandaharisoa & J. Steinke