Consent to and community engagement in global health research - reviewing and developing research and practice. (360G-Wellcome-094062_Z_10_Z)

This is a proposal for funding to organize a four-day international collaborative workshop bringing together leading groups engaged in research on community engagement and consent in collaborative global health research. The workshop will bring together individuals responsible for introducing or sustaining community engagement activities in developing countries, and for designing and implementing appropriate consent practices in these settings, and those conducting social science research on these topics. The aim will be to: 1. share ideas, experiences and needs regarding community engagement and consent interventions, including monitoring and evaluation, and related social sciencemethodologies 2. review ethical theories and approaches, and recent community engagement andconsent guidelines, and to consider how these frameworks can be incorporated into implementation activities and social science studies. 3. develop proposals for future research, including comparative studies, and to consider transferability of findings of studies conducted to date. 4. discuss the possibility and practicalities of establishing an internationalnetwork of groups working on community engagement and consent which might, for example, agree todevelop online collaborative resources for the sharing of experiences and of training materials.