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Neil FrenchLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK'Empowering rural communities to engage in health research discourse'£30 000Karonga Prevention Study (KPS) is known within its local community and associated with health careimprovement, in particular the disappearance of leprosy. In order to maintain public confidence andto increase responsiveness to local needs, a community engagement plan is proposed. Within this,activities will take place which: identify the level of awareness and motivation towards KPS researchamong staff, community groups, authorities, NGO's; increase the capacity of field staff tocommunicate health research; increase awareness and understanding of local attitudes to healthresearch in interactive dialogue; develop strategic partnerships with external stakeholders; and,explore new ways to communicate health research in remote and rural areas of Malawi. Theactivities will be closely evaluated with a view to incorporating the most effective activities into thenext strategic KPS programme.E kpschilumba@lshtm.ac.ukGabriel HarpSrishti School of Art, Design and Technology, India'"Watercasting": piloting the use of participatory media for identifying public health and watermanagement concerns in India.'£30 000"Watercasting" will encourage a two-way engagement between public health researchers and policymakers using cultural artefacts and participatory media to drive critical reflection about personal,community and policy decisions affecting water and public health management.Initial activities willsee a creative process engaging public health researchers and the community with artefacts whichwill elicit peoples' physical, emotional, and social relationships with water and its effects. Publiclyaccessiblemaps will then be made, illustrating the cultural and physical domain of water and itshealth consequences in everyday life. Films will be distributed to stakeholders including policymakers, economists and public health researchers. The films will explore the 'flow' of water throughindividuals, animals, infrastructure locations and policy decision points and will be informed by thedata collected in the initial activities. A final activity will see a working group including policy makers,economists, game designers, public health researchers and educators developing guidelines for astrategic game about water futures and health-conscious behaviours.E gabrielharp@gmail.comOliver KanenePanos Institute Southern Africa'Workshop on Maximising Health Research Communication in Zambia'£12 000This project will develop and conduct a one week health research communication workshop inZambia. The aim of the workshop is to bring together twenty-five research scientists, mediapersonnel and public health workers to share experiences and aspirations in the techniques ofdisseminating health research findings with the view of developing a research communicationcourse or short courses in Zambia. The workshop will use lectures, group discussions, a communityfield trip and community participation/consultation methods to bring out effective ways ofdisseminating research findings through a diversity of strategies and communication channels. Thecourses developed will aim to improve communication of health research findings, and therebystimulate civil society debate on key health issues, influence policy development in health and spurinformed public and civil society action. A wider aim of the project is to strengthen the integration ofhealth research into Zambian health sector development and to ultimately influence health sectors
across the Southern African region.E neshamavalley@yahoo.comVictoria MarshKEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya'Communication for health research in a hospital setting: process training with health providers forimproved communications with clients.'£29 970The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme conducts international research in collaborationwith Kilifi District Hospital to ensure adequate medical services are widely available and promotesgood clinical and ethical research practice. Communicating about research and responding to clients'needs requires specific skills and are particularly challenging where research and healthcare occurconcurrently. This project will develop, implement and evaluate a sustainable process to strengthenhealth providers' communication skills through training health providers and local trainers. Theproject will be implemented and evaluated between 2009 and 2010 for local Ministry of Health andKEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme health providers (nurses, clinical officers and medicalofficers). Over this period, two senior nurses in Kilifi will become local trainers. Outputs will includematerials to support future provider training and to build client understanding of health researchand services at Kilifi district hospital.E vmarsh@kilifi.kemri-wellcome.orgDaniel PeplowSuriname Indigenous Health Fund, Suriname'Self-directed research of public and environmental health problems by indigenous people inSuriname'£30 000The Organisation of Indigenous People in Suriname (OIS) is a coalition of indigenous villagescollaborating with the Suriname Foundation.This project will allow these two organizations tofacilitate a community-directed research project in Suriname.Through the application ofparticipatory methods the Organisation of Indigenous People in Suriname aims to build the capacityof indigenous people in Surinam to be leaders in their own health investigation and to promote selfdiagnosisof public health problems.Currently health in the region is being impacted by gold miningthroughout Suriname's interior region.This project will empower the local community to understandand conduct health research and will also encourage the non-indigenous research community tovalue and defer to local knowledge. For more information visit the Suriname Indigenous Health Fundwebsite.E sihfund@sihfund.orgProjects funded in 2008Neal AlexanderLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK'A cinema workshop on health research in coastal Ecuador'£30 000This project will produce two short films with a theme of health research in and around Zapallo inthe Esmeraldas province of coastal Ecuador, which has been the site of long-term projects toresearch and control onchocerciasis and other parasitic diseases. A series of workshops will helpdevelop the capacity of the local population to express their concerns in the form of acting,scriptwriting and technical aspects of cinema. The films will be screened locally with the aim ofgenerating debate, which will be documented. They will be packaged as a DVD, offered for broadcast
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