Facilitators and barriers to community engagement in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative-A mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT: Community engagement (CE) is an important component of public health research and program implementation, especially in low- and middle-income countries. More recently, CE activities have been utilized to develop partnerships in research and program implementation processes, and advocate for policy recommendations with the aim to improve acceptance and reduce disparities of public health research activities and benefits in the involved communities. Utilizing the tacit knowledge gained from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, this paper highlights the contributors and challenges to the implementation of the GPEI program's community engagement initiatives from an implementers' perspective. The study took a mixed methods approach to analyze data collected from the Synthesis and Translati

SUBMITTER: Agrawal P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10081736 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature