E-book launch! Public and community engagement in health research-openings and obstacles for listening and responding
Community engagement is recognized as a valuable and ethical component of health science research and its inclusion is increasingly becoming a prerequisite for research funding and approvals. In general terms, community engagement aims to foster the interchange of perspectives, opinions, and ideas and promote the co-production of knowledge between researchers, research participants, and other stakeholders. Community engagement initiatives are often designed with the intention of enabling exchanges of this nature.

This e-book explores approaches taken by engagement practitioners, engagement scholars, social scientists, and researchers to promote listening and responding to community voices in research processes. It seeks to understand the challenges that obstruct meaningful integration of community voices in research design and responsiveness to expressions of needs and aspirations for change, in low-and-middle-income countries. The Research Topic draws experience from numerous majority world countries and explores multiple global health challenges and research approaches.
Chair: Dr Gill Black | Sustainable Livilihoods Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
Speakers:
Dr Gary Hickey | Senior Research Manager, National Institute for Health and Care Research, UK
Dr Kay Polidano | Resident academic in the Department of Sociology, University of Malta, Malta
Cai Ngoc Thien Huong | Research Coordinator, Oxford University Clinical research Unit, Vietnam
Dr Alun Davies | Senior post doctoral researcher, Health Systems Collaborative, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK, and KEMRI-Wellcome Research Programme, Kenya.
Date: 6 February 2023, 9:00 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2023)
Venue: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/1916733631976/WN_53h7FaWdRjywNntv4DqDdg
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organiser: The Global Health Network (University of Oxford)
Host: The Global Health Network (University of Oxford)
Part of: The Global Health Network
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/1916733631976/WN_53h7FaWdRjywNntv4DqDdg
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Adam Dale