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Conversations from the 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016)
From 18th to 22nd July 18 000 healthcare professionals, policy makers and social entrepreneurs will convene in Durban, South Africa for AIDS 2016, the 21st annual International AIDS conference. Themed ‘Access Equity Rights Now’, the conference will be focused on providing care to and engage with communities of marginalised people; left behind in the race to provide ART - sex workers, men who have sex with men, young people, and transgender people. Issues such as tackling stigma and discrimination and providing support for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) will be a priority at the conference and this group will serve as a location to host further discussion around some of the topics that feature.
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Hi Nikita! Thank you for your post. I think innovations like Khuluma highlights very well the power of peer-based programmes and should be a high priority in the HIV response. Building on ...
Engagement at a Distance
In September 2020 Mesh hosted an interactive webinar exploring the possibilities for community engagement with health research when we cannot meet in person. What does it take to develop meaningful and valuable experiences online? What are the important lessons we have all learnt about engagement during the COVID-19 crisis? This group is to support continuing discussion on this topic and to allow for sharing of resources, ideas and projects. Selected unanswered questions from the webinar will also be addressed here
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Hi, I'm working on a project with De Montfort University, about the challenge of public health communications during the pandemic. I'm hoping to bring together practitioners and advocates of community health and ...
Engagement with vaccine research (closed group)
This discussion area is for delegates attending the "Trusting, Collaborating and Listening - Engaging Public and Communities with Vaccine Studies" workshop in September and October 2020. Please share your resources, documents and links. Any outstanding questions from the sessions will also be addressed here.
Ethics and Politics of CE in Global Health Research: Invite-Only Discussion
Discuss the preperations and outcomes of the September 2016 Ethics and Politics of Community Engagement in Global Health Research conference in Oxford, UK. This group will host pre-workshop discussions as well as the pre-workshop reading and post-workshop follow up. Further details of the event can be found on the event page (click here). If you would like to start a topic or comment on something you have seen on the event page, please do so. This discussion is join by request only. If you had comments on one of the papers and did not have the opportunity to voice them during the session please add them as comments in the relevant topic groups so that they can be taken forward.
Evaluating Community Engagement: 2017 Workshop (closed group)
The overall goal of this workshop is to synthesis approaches, methods, frameworks and theories used to evaluate community/public engagement and reflect on the usefulness of these approaches in strengthening practices across diverse settings and contexts. Further reading on evaluation approaches, methods, frameworks and theories: https://mesh.tghn.org/evaluation/
Evaluating Global Health films: Invite only discussion
This group will take forward discussions started at the ‘Evaluating Global Health Films’ workshop held in June (a collaboration between TORCH |the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and Medical Aid Films) – and continuing at the forthcoming Global Health Film Festival workshop ‘Breaking new ground – what’s the evidence for film in transforming Global Health?’ on Friday 11th November at the Barbican at 13.15pm. This group will host pre-workshop discussions as well as the pre-workshop reading and post-workshop follow up. Further details of the event can be found at http://www.globalhealthfilm.org/programme
FNIH and McMaster University Stakeholder Engagement Workshop (Closed Group)
The purpose of this space is to collect and discuss experiences and case studies relevant to stakeholder engagement for projects carrying out research on novel vector control methods. These discussions will feed into the process of outlining best practice principles for stakeholder engagement, which will be drafted at a workshop taking place in April of this year.
Introduce Yourself to the Mesh Network
This group has been created to allow group members to introduce themselves. Please use this group for any social chat, general questions and to describe what it is that you would most like to get out of this site, and from the network as a whole.
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Connecting and collaborating with the Industry and Academicians in Public Engagement Projects that will help people in the third world countries.
Mesh Evaluation Month
This Discussion Group will host a series of discussions throughout, and following, the Mesh July 2016 evaluation month. This will be your chance to ask questions, share insights, debate methods, and contribute to new evaluation resources for the community.
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What are your experiences of evaluating social media components of engagement work? Is there anything you have found particularly useful that you could share with the community? Users have recently added a ...
Connectors Workshops
This group is for continuing the discussion, sharing relevant links and materials and meeting others from the Connectors 2021 series of workshops. Sign up to Mesh to join the group
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Please add any relevant links to projects, guides, materials etc that you think would be of interest to other delegates.