Community Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa

Community engagement (CE) is a well-established practical and scholarly field, recognised as core to the science and ethics of health research, for which researchers and practitioners have increasingly asked questions about desired standards and evaluation. In infectious disease outbreak contexts, questions may be more complex. However, it is unclear what body of knowledge has been developed for CE specifically as it applies to emerging infectious diseases. This scoping review seeks to describe (1) How CE has been conceptualised and understood; and (2) What conclusions have research teams reached on the effectiveness of CE in these settings, including challenges and facilitators.

Research in Global Health Emergencies: ethical issues

Nuffield Bioethics have published the findings of a two year in-depth inquiry into the ethical issues relating to research in global health emergencies. This draws partly on a meeting held in Dakar in 2019 which was a collaboration between the Nuffield Council on Bioethics; the African coaLition for Epidemic Research, Response and Training (ALERRT) consortium; the Institute for Health Research, Epidemiological Surveillance and Training (IRESSEF) in Dakar, Senegal; and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (WEH) at Oxford University.

Lessons learned from engaging communities for Ebola vaccine trials in Sierra Leone

Read the new paper published by the team at LSHTM