Provision for Public Engagement. (360G-Wellcome-106874_Z_15_A)

i. Vision The fact that approximately half the world's population is at risk from malaria makes it a compelling subject for public engagement. Seemingly intractable or resurgent malaria, and escalating drug and insecticide resistance, will ensure that malaria remains central to the concerns of medical scientists, health-workers and policy-makers. Our vision for public/professional engagement embraces both these elements. We aim to bring our research findings to the attention of stake-holders and to help them framenew interventions which are compatible with broader goals of social and economic development. Additionally, we aim to communicate our findings to the general public. We have identified several constituencies which may be interested in our work: students and school-children in the UK and other countries (e.g. China and South Korea) who want to know more about issues relating to global development; relatively affluent and well educated urban elites; and those most affected by malaria the urban and rural poor. Our aims in communicating with these groups include: providing education in the complexities of health and development; raising consciousness about health inequalities and the causes of malaria resurgence; cooperating with health workers to explain new interventions of a therapeutic and preventative nature. ii. Experience Harrison has experience of public engagement work in Britain and overseas, serving as an advisor to museums, creative industries (e.g. theatre companies), public institutions such as the armed forces, public lectures/interviews, media appearances, and journalism. His includes contributions to global health debates (e.g. on Ebola) through blogs and articles, and the Brookings Institution's 'Global Civics' programme. In South Korea and China, he has participated in professional education in global health in universities and medical schools, as well as agencies such as the Korean Institute for National Unification and the Korean International Cooperation Agency. Public lectures have also been delivered on similar topicsin Busan, Seoul, Taipei and Beijing. One of the RAs (Kim) has assisted in this work. Another RA (Jervis-Read) has worked with the Indian National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme and Delhi Municipality. The core collaborators White, Snow, and Baird have spent much of their career doing research which is directly applicable to health policy and practice, and they serve as advisors to key stake-holders in policy-making such as the WHO and APMEN, the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network. The research centres in which they work bridge the gap between research and its practical application and make an effort to inform the wider public about their work through videos, engagement in local schools, etc. iii. Outline and host support Oxford University will liaise with Science Oxford to enable us to communicate project findings to local schools. This has already been done under the ISSF grant currently held by Oxford. The Humanities Division will make available the facilities of The Oxford Centre for Humanities Research (TORCH) for publiclectures. The annual meetings of the Oxford Tropical Network will also enable us to engage many health workers outside the academic community. A 'Fever Festival' (see below) will be staged at various sites in Oxford, including thePitt Rivers and History of Science museums. The project will also be able to utilize the resources of collaborating institutions and the networks of which they are a part. For example: collaboration with Kobe University in The Education of Global Medical and Health Science Leaders in the Coming Generation in Cooperation and Collaboration with ASEAN Countries; provision ofprofessional training to students, medical practitioners and health workers atthe University of Peking and other Chinese institutions under the umbrella of the Oxford-Beijing Initiative in Health and Humanity. The same initiative alsoprovides links to the media in China. The 'Fever Festival' will consist of: 1. 'Fevered' Public Engagement Day/exhibition launch: Includes a 'carousel' of displays and interactive exhibits exploring how fevers and malaria in particular have been perceived, diagnosed, treated and are increasingly mapped. Audience: general public, families with older (secondary school) children. 2. Fevered Films: A day or series of evenings of film screenings of documentary, ethnographic, fiction accounts of fevers and malaria. What insights to these different genres of films give us into the perception, experience and treatment of feverand illness? e.g. Fiebres (2013). Dir. Adrien Lecouturier. Audiences: Adults, students. Possibility for links with medical student with an interest in global health. E.g. Medsin. 3. Fevered Humanities: a TORCH Network: How have different disciplines grappled with the disorientation and difficultyof representing as well as diagnosing fevers? What kinds of spaces do the imagination as well as experience of fever open up as well as impair creatively? Audience: Medical humanities researchers. iv. Monitoring: This will be done at fortnightly meetings and at meetings of Advisory Board inOxford and the Oxford Tropical Network conference. It will be evaluated by event attendance; questionnaires; website and social media feedback v. Budget Professional development: £10,000 Policy forums:£10,000 Festival: £5000