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Working in Vaccine Hesitant Communities
A space to share experiences, literature and resources around working in communities where there is vaccine hesitancy. Join if you have something to share, are doing similar work or have questions around the issue.
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A discussion on vaccine hesitancy and the role of engagment in tackling this issuie within commuinites.
NIHR Global Health CEI Advisory Network (closed group)
The NIHR Global Health Community Engagement & Involvement Advisory Network brings together academics, researchers, patients, carers and members of the public with knowledge and experience of public involvement in research and community engagement in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). This discussion group covers topics and ideas that have been raised in the Network's virtual meetings, as well as providing a place for sharing relevant CEI resources with one another.
'Newsletter Provocations'
Newsletter Provocations Newsletter Provocations Monthly discussions based on a resource shared on Mesh this month Join our discussion and share your thoughts. Whether you are an engagement practitioner or researcher or have other relevant experience we welcome your input. Please feel free to site any relevant projects or publications and we may include these in a future feature.
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In the article 'Evaluating public communication of science and technology: The case of the Ebola virus' the author found that religious institutions and actors could play three kinds or role in relation ...
Minimum Standards for Engagement Consultation Group
**PLEASE NOTE THIS CONSULTATION HAS NOW CLOSED** UNICEF Communication for Development is seeking comment on draft documents outlining proposed minimum standards for community engagement and indicators for measurement for development and humanitarian practice. The ‘Development of Minimum Quality Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement Project’ emerges from a growing consensus on the need for improved evaluation and measurement of the impacts of community engagement, particularly in the wake of lessons learned during the 2014 – 16 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa. Through a wide-ranging consultative process, and building on current practice and evidence, UNICEF is currently developing a framework for community engagement that will support implementation of high quality, evidence-based community engagement in the development and humanitarian sector. Click the topic below to take part. The consultation will close on 17th December 2018. Please note, you will have to be a member of Mesh to join this consultation - click 'register' at the top of this page to join.
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 ...
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.
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.
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
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/
Workshop on Community Consent for Gene Drive Research in Africa (Closed Group)
Target Malaria and the Kenya Medical Research Institute have convened this workshop to examine issues related to consent and community acceptance in the development of gene drive technologies in African contexts. It is intended to provide direction and recommendations to Target Malaria as it enters its next phase of work. The workshop will not discuss stakeholder engagement in general terms, or reduce engagement to acceptance, but will instead seek to tease out what is meant by consent and acceptance, what practices, requirements and standards could be drawn upon by Target Malaria to ensure decisions are informed and meaningful, and what is the responsibility and role of researchers in this process. PLEASE SEE THE "CONTEXT & INTRODUCTION" TOPIC FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PARTICIPATE.