Science & Community Public Engagement Workshop3-5 December 2008

Global Health Research - Strategy

• Broaden the research base for scientific endeavour in under-resourced environments

- for example, major research capacity strengthening initiatives in Africa and India

• Support areas of science that have potential for increasing health benefits for people and livestock

• Support international networks and partnerships focused on problems of resource-poor countries

www.wellcome.ac.uk/globalhealth

Global Health Research - Activities

• 3000 researchers, 50 countries

• 5 major overseas programmes

• Wellcome Trust spend is ~£500 million p.a. with ~£70 million p.a. for international activities

• Geographical focus Africa, South East Asia, Latin America

www.wellcome.ac.uk/globalhealth

Public Engagement

To foster an informed climate within which biomedical

science can flourish

• promote learning, interest and excitement

• stimulate an informed debate

• inform national and Trust policy and plans

Current International Public Engagement Activities

•Strengthening capacity for public engagement in major overseas programmes

•International Engagement Awards

•Projects funded through Livestock for Life

•Building network Workshop Dec 08Developing online network

Future Plans

• Public engagement support for researchers based outside the UK

• Future public engagement workshops

• Evaluation and lesson learning from Livestock for Life

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Key Aims of Workshop

• To establish links with and between public engagement practitioners • To establish a network involving:

• External relations, communications & engagement staff at the Wellcome Trust’s major overseas programmes• Holders of International Engagement Awards• UK-based grantholders with an interest in global health• Other key stakeholders

• Develop a shared understanding of the scope of the practice•Identify key issues and needs of the group

Questions

•Who does/should do public engagement?

•What is the role of researchers and what is the role of intermediaries?

•Who are the intermediaries?

People

Questions

•Do different types of research need different approaches to engagement?

Science

Questions

•Who are the public?

•How can stakeholders or communities be identified and prioritised for engagement?

Public

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•How can we evaluate the impact of public engagement activities?

•What measures can we use and who should set these measures?

Impact

Questions

•How transferable are lessons learned by practitioners between geographical or cultural contexts?

•Can successful models be rolled out?

Transferring Learning

Four Stories about Science & Community

• Luisa Massarani, Brazil• Hemalatha Somsekhar, India• Oby Obyerodhyambo, Kenya• Rebecca Gould, UK

http://www.dgroups.org/groups/wellcome-engagement/

http://scienceincommunity.wordpress.com/