Effective engagement and involvement with community stakeholders in the co-production of global health research

Doreen Tembo and colleagues argue that small changes as well larger system-wide can strengthen citizens’ contribution to knowledge in health research Involving a broad range of individual collective perspectives global outside academic is gaining increasing recognition mechanism for achieving greater impact. This activity goes by many names (box 1). In the north or high income country, it commonly called “patient public involvement,” “engagement,” “participation.” low middle countries south, these participatory processes are termed “community engagement,” “participation,” engagement involvement.”123 Co-production, core feature community involvement, common both with potential benefits. It helps ensure contributes building generating innovations benefit users research.4 For drives change reduces waste resources,5 co-production should start from earliest stages, when problems identified priorities defined.6 Such an approach supports ethical, specific, appropriate local community.789101112 Involvement end design projects has also been shown improve recruitment participants methods, making implementation impact results more likely.913 Box 1 ### Terminology partnering communities Many terms used describe how researchers form partnerships non-academic communities. The lack universally agreed defined lead clarity about shared values scope activities, relevance other hamper discovery synthesis evidence literature. UK National Institute Health Research (NIHR) distinguishes between terminologies … RETURN TO TEXT