International Engagement Awards Projects funded ... - Wellcome Trust

Rebecca GouldTinderbox Consultants, UK'Imagining the Future IV - India 2009'£30 000Imagining the Future IV - India 2009 (ItFIV) will involve the formation of an intercultural theatrecompany, involving theatre practitioners from the Theatrescience project in the UK and the JagritiTheatre in Bangalore, and to place them in residence at the National Centre for Biological Sciences(NCBS) for four weeks where they will collaborate with scientists from NCBS and create two newpieces of theatre that explore how current biomedical science developments are affecting lives inIndia and the UK. These two new pieces of theatre will then be performed at NCBS, at Jagriti Theatreand in Bangalore schools. All performances will be followed by debate/discussion and the scripts willbe published and video material made available. A report and video will be posted on theTheatrescience website. ItFIV is a development of work begun in the UK in 2003 and in India in 2006.E mail@theatrescience.comSylvia de HaanCouncil on Health Research for Development (COHRED), Switzerland'Consultation on civil society influence on shaping health research agendas in low-incomecountries'£10 000This consultative workshop will facilitate learning between partners to better appreciate existingexperiences in different cultural, political and economic contexts. Strategies to promote civil societyengagement in health research and health research governance in the South will be developed. Theconsultative workshop in Denmark will bring together civil society organisations from Africa, withkey resource people from Asia, the Americas and Europe. The consultation outputs will also be usedto provide a civil society perspective and input to the Global Ministerial Forum on Research forHealth (Bamako, Mali, Nov. 2008). For more information visit the Council on Health Research forDevelopment website, the Public Health Research and Development Center website and theUniversity of Copenhagen Centre for Health Research and Development website.E dehaan@cohred.orgE ayo.palmer@ciam.gmE pabl@life.ku.dkPontiano KaleebuUganda Virus Research Institute, Uganda'Addressing communication gaps and needs in HIV prevention research within Lake Victoria fishingcommunities in Uganda.'£30 000The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) is a government of Uganda public health researchinstitution. Its mission is to carry out scientific research on communicable diseases of public healthimportance and to advise the government on strategies for control and prevention.UVRI is currently scaling up health research efforts among Lake Victoria fishing communities inWakiso and Masaka districts with an aim of involving these marginalised, vulnerable communities inongoing HIV prevention research taking place in those districts. Fishing communities have hadlimited access to information on past or current HIV research efforts and findings. UVRI will workwith Uganda Fisheries Department and World Fish to conduct an assessment and communicationsoutreach project that will aim to identify and address the communication gaps and needs in thispopulation, and to build support for research efforts among them. Communication issues to beaddressed will include research ethics, informed consent, relevant HIV research findings thus far andinformation on any research efforts affecting or involving those communities. Identified print media