Published Literature: How can community engagement in health research be strengthened for infectious disease outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa? A scoping review of the literature
by Mesh Editorial TeamThis literature review, published in 2021 and funded by ALERRT, looks at the body of knowledge that has been developed for community engagement specifically as it applies to emerging infectious disease outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Project Report: “Nothing about us without us”: How families affected by Zika are claiming back control
by Mesh Editorial Team, Natalie HunterThis 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.
by Sian Aggett, Mesh Editorial TeamThis 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: Online training course: In the footsteps of Zika: Approaching the unknown
by Mesh Editorial TeameLearning: Free online training course: Preventing Zika
by Mesh Editorial TeamReport: UNICEF Consultation with Partners to Develop Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement
by Mesh Editorial TeamReport: Data Modeling Behaviour Change in Health Emergencies Project
by Mesh Editorial TeamReport: Modeling and measuring community engagement in health emergencies convening: Summary report
by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mesh Editorial TeamProject Report: An Exploration of the Lived Experience of African Journalists during the 2014 Ebola Crisis
by World Federation of Science Journalists, Mesh Editorial TeamEvent: Showcase 2019 - International Society of Neglected Tropical Diseases Festival
by Mesh Editorial TeamProject Report: World Mosquito Day Community Festival to raise awareness of mosquito vectors in local communities
by Leonardo Ortega-López, Mesh Editorial TeamRepository: Ebola Response Anthropology Platform
by Mesh Editorial TeamVideo: Association of Public Health Laboratories: Fighting Emerging Infectious Diseases
by Mesh Editorial TeamLiterature: From ‘Trial Community’ to ‘Experimental Publics’: How Clinical Research Shapes Public Participation
by C. Montgomery & R. Pool, Mesh Editorial TeamThis 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.
A Case Study: In 2012 the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) was awarded £29,999 from the Wellcome Trust International Engagement Awards over three years to implement an engagement project alongside its Vietnam Initiative on Zoonotic Infections (VIZIONS). The project uses simple digital storytelling techniques to bring to the surface the participants’ ideas about personal and public risk and perceptions of disease and transmission.