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Guide: WHO R&D Good Participatory Practice for COVID-19 clinical trials: a toolbox

This toolbox was developed in 2020 for the World Health Organisation COVID-19 Research Roadmap and provides a synthesis of key action points from the WHO GPP-EP guidelines. This “how to” guide gives an overview, tips and resources and will be updated as new resources are completed and approved.

Guide: WHO Working with Community Advisory Boards for COVID-19 related clinical studies

This toolbox was developed for the World Health Organisation COVID-19 Research Roadmap and shares information on establishing and working with different types of Community Advisory Boards/Groups (CAB/Gs) in the context of COVID-19 clinical studies.

Project Report: “Nothing about us without us”: How families affected by Zika are claiming back control

This article introduces a series of videos exploring experiences of the Zika epidemic from different perspectives. Within the videos we hear from mothers of children born with microcephaly and from researchers in Brazil and the UK.

Podcast: Defined roles and Working Together: A Conversation about the Community Engagement, Communications and Social Science associated with a Vaccine Trial during the Ebola Outbreak of 2014-2016.

This podcast features the team who led the EBOVAC-Salone study at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discussing the role community engagement played within clinical trials

eLearning: Ethics in epidemics, emergencies and disasters: Research, surveillance and patient care

This 7 module course offers comprehensive training exploring the wide range of ethical issues faced by health professionals and policy makers working in the context of epidemics/pandemics and disaster situations, focusing primarily on the key areas of research, surveillance and patient care.

eLearning: Free online training course: Preventing Zika

Report: UNICEF Consultation with Partners to Develop Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement

Report: Data Modeling Behaviour Change in Health Emergencies Project

Report: Modeling and measuring community engagement in health emergencies convening: Summary report

Event: Showcase 2019 - International Society of Neglected Tropical Diseases Festival

Project Report: World Mosquito Day Community Festival to raise awareness of mosquito vectors in local communities

Repository: Ebola Response Anthropology Platform

Guidelines: Risk communication and community engagement for Zika virus prevention and control

Academic Literature: Ethics of Randomized Trials in a Public Health Emergency

This paper briefly summarises the discussion of a committee which aimed to assess clinical trials conducted in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia during the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Literature: From ‘Trial Community’ to ‘Experimental Publics’: How Clinical Research Shapes Public Participation

This article argues for a conceptual shift away from the static, singular term ‘trial community’ towards ‘experimental publics’. The authors observe that the term ‘community’ is often employed uncritically and assumes that ‘communities’ pre-exist research; that they are timeless and undifferentiated wholes. ‘Experimental publics’, by contrast, are dynamic, multiple, and impermanent in nature.