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The challenges facing rural health services are unique and the important role of health service leaders in the research response is increasingly recognised. Despite this, there is a relative paucity of research co-designed with rural health services, and poorly-designed research can contribute to research waste through reduced applicability of results to rural communities. This case study aims to describe how meaningful co-design between rural health service leaders and a health service-embedded research unit can identify emerging research priorities and optimise translation.

In early 2020, leaders at a rural Victorian health service approached the embedded health service research unit to request research be conducted on an emerging issue: rural staff wellbeing in the face of the COVID19 pandemic. This was based on the health service leader’s concern regarding lack of …