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- help Africa fix itself?; the malaria challenge; new tools for medical journalists; buildingcommunities; navigating pharmaceuticals; risk reporting and superstition and disease. The aim ofthe strand is to enable journalists to hear from scientists and journalists at the cutting edge of theseissues from all regions of the world. In this way it intends to take them beyond basic researchreporting and facilitate discussion of the social, cultural, and ethical impact of these areas ofresearch and the responsibilities journalists have to report science within a broader social context.E Nadia.elawady@wcsj2011.orgRachel JonesKEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya'The Kenyan Alliance of Health and Science Journalists (KAHSR)'£27 337This project aims to establish a formal journalism support and training organisation, the KenyanAlliance of Health and Science Journalists (KAHSR). This organisation aspires to identify and nurtureKenyan journalists who have shown an interest or expertise in covering health and science-relatedissues. This will involve regular email briefings and informational updates and mentoring support.There will also be formal briefings, which would highlight health and science-related topics in thenews, the latest research, and policy analysis. Over the course of a year, five general briefings indifferent regions of Kenya will be interspersed with email alerts with story leads and suggestionsabout newsworthy trends and policy developments to pursue. The KAHSR will aim to run quarterlytraining workshops, which would be held at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Program in Kilifi.Journalists with a proven track record of producing health and research related stories would beable to compete for one of six slots at each of four workshops. These workshops would involve aweek's immersion in the Kilifi program, including interactions with researchers, field trips, andguided writing and reporting exercises. The aim of the training workshops would be to produce acadre of reporters with a level of exposure to scientific and research practice that could dramaticallystrengthen their basic knowledge, comprehension and initiative in reporting on health and scienceissues.E rjconsults@gmail.comE kahsr.media@gmail.comE rachella45@yahoo.comWasundhara JoshiSociety for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA), India'Art and health in urban India'£29 838This project intends to conduct a series of activities that foster dialogue between formerlysegregated communities: slum dwellers, professional artists and health scientists. The activitiesinvolve collaborations between established artists and emerging artists from Mumbai's majoritycommunities. Artworks will be developed for an exhibition of pictorial and plastic arts, film and liveperformance on an urban health theme. The project will culminate in an exhibition of creative workson the health of people who live in India's slums, to be displayed at the International Conference onUrban Health which will be hosted in India in 2011. SNEHA websiteAnh NgoCenter for Promotion of Advancement of Society, Vietnam'Using participatory action research to engage children with disabilities and their families indeveloping health initiatives to improve their access to health and social services'£30 000This project seeks to engage the community in the development of health initiatives to improveaccess to health and social services for children with congenital anomalies or disabilities and their
families in Aluoi district, Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam, an area heavily affected by the use ofAgent Orange during the Vietnam American War.Specific objectives are to: 1) raise awareness aboutcommunity's perceptions of and experiences with congenital anomalies and disabilities; 2) engagechildren with disabilities, their families and their communities in research that addresses theirunmet needs for health and social services; 3) promote dialogue between health researchers,children with disabilities, their families and their communities on health initiatives aimed atimproving access to and the quality of health and social services. The project will employ aparticipatory action research (PAR) approach that involves the target populations in the wholeresearch process, including selection of research topics, data collection and analysis, and generationof policy and practice recommendations or action.Vikram PatelCentre for Global Mental Health, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK andSangath, India'EMPOWER: Empowering people affected by Mental disorders to Promote Wider Engagementwith Research'£30 000One of the major barriers in facilitating the scaling up of mental health services in developingcountries is the marginalised voices of people affected by mental disorders and the limited capacityof groups representing them ("user organisations") to articulate positions based on science. The aimof this proposal is to strengthen the capacity of user organisations in sub-Saharan Africa and SouthAsia to utilise research findings to develop a plan for engagement with the wider community, toimprove the understanding of the nature and treatment of mental disorders and reduce thepervasive stigma associated with these conditions. This project will achieve its objectives through aseries of linked activities: participation of each user organization in the annual Leadership in MentalHealth course in Goa, India in November 2010 where the participants will interact with researchersand practitioners to develop the key messages for the communication strategy; developing thecommunication strategy around these key messages, contextualised for each setting; increasing theacceptability of the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH) website, and the partnerorganisation web-sites, for non-professional audiences, with technical support from web-designexperts; and dissemination of the communication strategies through the websites and presentationat the Global Mental Health Summit in Cape Town in October 2011. Ultimately, the strategies will bethe basis for concerted campaigns in each country to call for action to achieve the goals of theMGMH.E Vikram.patel@lshtm.ac.ukProjects funded in 2009Simon BrookerLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK'Enhancing the understanding and use of health research in media and national policy frameworksin Kenya.'£29 645This project will develop a model of public engagement with media and policy frameworks in Kenya.Four inter-related engagement activities will take place, including: a press briefing workshop, wherejournalists will be exposed to health research and receive training in reporting and writing healthstories; a policy briefing workshop, where the role of health research in decision making and howresearch can be better utilised will be explored; science cafés where members of the public discusshealth topics in a casual and participatory forum; and media training for Kenyan health researchers.Each activity will target a different audience, but will be supportive of one another. The project willinitially focus on the use of maps of malaria and helminth infections to support disease control
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