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We host workshops and webinars on current themes to help develop the community engagement field and generate new ideas and partnerships. We also share materials from externally planned workshops that are relevant to Mesh users. If you would like to use Mesh to share resources and learning from an event that you are planning please contact us.
2025
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25th June 2025 Webinar: A Solidarity of the Shaken: From Despair to Collective Action |
This webinar brings together global health practitioners, researchers, advocates, and community leaders committed to turning shared challenges into collective strength. The forum explores how solidarity, beyond rhetoric, can be a lived practice that shapes policy, partnerships, and action in times of crisis. Time: 09:00 EST|10:00 BRT|13:00 GMT| 14:00 BST|15:00 CAT|16:00 EAT |
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28 - 29th April 2025 Kathmandu meeting - Mesh engagement course for clinical trials |
On 28–29April, 2025, community engagement specialists from Nepal, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand gathered at OUCRU-Nepal in Kathmandu for an intensive co-creation workshop. The two-day event marked a significant milestone in the development of an online training course designed to strengthen public, community, and patient involvement in clinical trials. |
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26 - 27th March 2025 Mesh engagement course for clinical trials - Nairobi |
Community engagement and involvement experts from Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa were hosted by Amref International University on the 26th and 27th of March 2025 in a working meeting aimed at developing content for an online training on public, community, and patient engagement and involvement in clinical trials. |
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19th March 2025 Webinar: Effective Community Engagement in Global Health Research for Sustainable Change in Africa
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This panel discussion comprises experts from different parts of Africa who will highlight the importance of inclusive, culturally sensitive, and participatory approaches in global health research to ensure sustainable health outcomes. |
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27th March 2025 Webinar: Advisory Groups for Research in India, Pakistan and Vietnam. |
Establishing and maintaining Community Advisory Boards and Patient and Public Involvement groups are providing a popular and effective way of including local perspectives and lived experiences of patients into the way health research is designed and implemented. The body of evidence for their contribution to ethical practice, recruitment, retention and uptake of research into policy is growing rapidly worldwide. Join this webinar to hear how research teams in India, Pakistan and Vietnam have developed advisory groups and how these have been valuable in improving research |
2024
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28 - 30th November 2024 Mesh Presentation and workshop at the Ifakara Annual Conference, Tanzania. |
Highlights MESH's involvement in this prestigious event, where key insights on community engagement in global health research were shared. The post details the significance of the meeting, the focus of MESH's presentation, and how it contributed to the ongoing dialogue around effective practices for engaging communities in Africa. It also touches on the collaborative atmosphere of the event, the exchange of knowledge between researchers and practitioners, and the impact of these conversations on advancing health initiatives in the region. |
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28th October 2024 Webinar: Community Engagement in Health Research in Latin America and the Caribbean |
Join the first MESH network webinar focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. Experiences of community engagement in different social contexts across three Latin American countries will be presented, along with insights on what community involvement in research projects entails and what this field, with its rich history in Latin America, needs to gain greater visibility within the scientific and local communities. |
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27th August 2024 Webinar: Global Strategies for Policy Engagement: Insights from Kenya, Argentina, and India |
Join us for what promises to be a rich and insightful webinar on the subject of policy engagement — how researchers engage policy-makers and the policy-making process in order to encourage the creation of policies and laws based on evidence. Our speakers represent three different institutions in Kenya, Argentina, and India with a strong legacy of work in this field. They will share their approaches and learnings from their policy engagement work. |
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10th July 2024 Webinar: Harnessing Community Engagement for public Health Research Success in East Africa |
This is an interactive and insightful webinar delving into the critical role of community engagement in global health research and its significant impact on public health in East Africa. The speakers will explore practical strategies and the importance of involving communities in research initiatives to ensure relevance, sustainability, and ethical considerations. Learn how meaningful partnerships with communities can lead to impactful research outcomes and influence public health policies and practices. Whether you're a researcher, healthcare professional, or community health worker, this webinar is designed for you. |
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21st and 28th May 2024 Webinar: Empowering Communities - Innovative Approaches to AI Health Research and Engagement |
This series of webinars aims at exploring the ethical aspects and considerations for AI in health research. The authors present practical ways of addressing the challenges through recognised community engagement approaches.
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9 April 2024 Webinar: Engaging children and youth with health research: Case studies from Brazil, Kenya and Vietnam |
Engaging young people and children in health research can increase their interest in science while simultaneously familiarizing researchers with the issues and concerns of our communities. In this webinar, three schools engagement projects in three countries are showcased: The Brazilian Health and Environment Olympics hosted by Fiocruz in Rio de Janerio, Brazil; Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam’s Schools and Youth Engagement Programme; and the School Engagement Programme of the KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya. Learn more about this exemplary work and to consider what learnings the experience of schools engagement might have for community engagement practitioners as a whole. |
2023
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6 Feb 2023 Webinar: Public and community engagement in health research-openings and obstacles for listening and responding |
E-book launch! This e-book explores approaches taken by engagement practitioners, engagement scholars, social scientists, and researchers to promote listening and responding to community voices in research processes. It seeks to understand the challenges that obstruct meaningful integration of community voices in research design and responsiveness to expressions of needs and aspirations for change, in low-and-middle-income countries. The Research Topic draws experience from numerous majority world countries and explores multiple global health challenges and research approaches |
2022
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13 Oct 2022 Webinar: Community Engagement with AMR: Responsive Dialogues in practice |
To address antimicrobial resistance (AMR), community engagement needs to be combined with stakeholder engagement across sectors. The Responsive Dialogues approach provides guidance for this, generating practical steps to tackle AMR at community and policy level. This webinar included speakers from Malawi-LiverpoolWellcome Trust in Malawi and Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Thailand, who shared insights from two country pilots.
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22 Sept 2022 Webinar: Voices from the Pandemic: COVID-19 experiences in Asia
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Jointly hosted by Mesh and CONNECT, this webinar introduced digital diaries - short films and photographs - created by community members in Nepal, Indonesia and Vietnam reflecting on their experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Speakers, including a film maker involved in the project, described the practicalities and challenges of engaging with communities and reflected on how the digital diaries method can be an empowering tool. |
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Dec 2021 - July 2022 Webinar Series: Community Engagement within Research Uptakein partnership with our sister hub ARCH
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If research is to deliver its maximum impact and positively change health outcomes, findings from health research should be translated into recommendations that are relevant to communities and can be implemented within policy and practice. ARCH and Mesh are working in partnership to present a new webinar series exploring the role of community engagement within the process of research uptake. Webinar 5: Sexual and Gender Rights | 21 July 2022 |
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18 May 2022 Taking relationships seriously: Findings from a realist review of community engagement
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Watch this webinar on the REAL Community Engagement Realist Review where the research team shared some of their fascinating findings. The REAL project aimed to provide more conceptual clarity around how engagement works in practice and looked at published papers and engagement work within malaria research in low- and middle-income countries. The review highlights some key relationship and power dynamics at the heart of engagement work and a range of factors that enable and constrain it. |
2021
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Webinar Series: Community Engagement within Research Uptakein partnership with our sister hub ARCH
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If research is to deliver its maximum impact and positively change health outcomes, findings from health research should be translated into recommendations that are relevant to communities and can be implemented within policy and practice. |
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Workshop Series: Connectors in Engagementin partnership with Eh!woza and Interfer in South Africa
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Connectors supports discussions about the key role that engagement professionals, creatives, community groups and other organisations play in bridging the gap between research and communities. These ‘Connectors’ often have unique skills and experience, existing ways of working with the public, and can be essential in a successful engagement project. We hosted a three virtual workshops in 2021 with the aim of identifying challenges and opportunities, generating new ideas and enabling new collaborations. |
2020
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Workshop: Trusting, Collaborating and Listening - Engaging Public and Communities with Vaccine Studies
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A theme area has been created following a four day Mesh workshop exploring public and community engagement with vaccine research. This area shares videos, exercises, projects, links to published literature, and many free guidelines and tools. It explores the topic through four themes:
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Webinar: Engagement at a distance - Sharing Lessons from experience
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Webinar: Public Engagement and Involvement in Health Research: How well are we doing?
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This webinar from July 2020 was organised through a collaboration between the International PPI Network, the NIHR Global Health Programme and Mesh.Speakers asked how well do we really 'do' public engagement and involvement in research in different parts of the world? The UK has a long history of these type of activities, but do they provide the benchmark for best practice? Researchers in South Africa are making significant efforts to tackle the nation’s health challenges and community engagement plays a critical role, but are they approaching it the right way? What can we learn from each other to help us improve? |
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Webinar: Why is it important for health researchers to engage school students?
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Launching the Mesh School Engagement theme area and Research In Focus lecture series, Dr Alun Davies, Schools Engagement Lead at KEMRI | Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya, outlines the goals, methods and outcomes of school engagement as a “win-win” engagement approach for both researchers and students. This lecture draws on experiences and reflections from KEMRI | Wellcome’s School Engagement Programme and from an international practitioners workshop held in 2018. Visit our School Engagement theme area for futher resources across a range of approaches and methods |
2018
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Taking it to the Next Level: How can we generate leadership and develop practice in engagement?
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2017
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Evaluating Community Engagement: Workshop
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It’s Complicated: Navigating scientific complexity in public and community engagement
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2016
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Ethics and Politics of Community Engagement in Global Health Research
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The Art of Health: Exploring creative engagement with health research
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2015
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Global Food Matters: An appetite for engaging with research |
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