Welcome - Child Health (Mesh)

Webinar: Community Engagement within Research Uptake - Maternal and Child Health

This webinar held in December 2021 explored the role of community engagement within the process of applying research to changes in health policy and practice, focusing on maternal and child health. 

Guide: WHO Addressing violence against children, women and older people during the covid-19 pandemic: Key actions

Several countries affected by COVID-19, have seen increases in levels of violence occurring in the home, including violence against children, intimate partner violence and violence against older people. This WHO brief dated 18 June 2020, compiles key actions that the health sector can undertake within a multisectoral response to prevent or mitigate interpersonal violence based on existing WHO guidance.

Project Report: Bate Papo Vacina! (Let’s get vaccinated!)

This blog style project reflection from Village Reach gives an introduction to the different aspects of their research project exploring barriers to vaccination in Mozambique.

Webinar: Engagement at a distance: Sharing lessons from experience

This interactive Mesh learning webinar held in September 2020 explored the possibilities for community engagement with health research when we cannot meet in person. Find the recording here

Guide: Top Tips on using Facebook

This blog piece from Parenting Science Gang in the UK gives their top tips on using Facebook for citizen science and engagement.

Project Report: The PANChSHEEEL Project

PANChSHEEEL (Participatory Approach for Nutrition in Children: Strengthening Health, Education, Environment and Engineering Linkages) is an interdisciplinary cross-sector project designed to explore health, education, engineering and environment  factors that influence infant and young child feeding practices and nutrition in India.

Bangles and Bindhis: Engaging communities about child marriage in southern Nepal

A film engages Nepalese communities about the health implications of child marriage

Project Report: Confluence of the Old and New: Understanding Resistance to New Born Screening in Nigeria

Project Report: A puppet show to engage the community addressing antimicrobial resistance and research with children

Fishy Clouds, a puppet theatre show, was created to engage the community on issues of antimicrobial resistance and research with children in Thailand. Fishy Clouds ran for twelve shows during the months of November and December 2016 in schools, hospitals, theatres and health centres. The show was performed in Bangkok and in the greater Mae Sot area in the Tak district of Thailand.

Project Report: Angkor Hospital for Children’s Young Persons Advisory Group

An introduction to the work of the Angkor Hospital for Children’s (AHC) Young Persons Advisory Group, a group of young Cambodians (aged 10 – 15 years) who meet monthly to discuss important operational and research issues arising from the AHC management.