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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

Evaluation report from the Wellcome Trust's Sciart funding programme

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.