Sharing power in global health research: an ethical toolkit for designing priority-setting processes that meaningfully include communities.

ABSTRACT: To promote social justice and equity, global health research should meaningfully engage communities throughout projects: from setting agendas onwards. But communities, especially those that are considered disadvantaged or marginalised, rarely have a say in the priorities of the research projects that aim to help them. So far, there remains limited ethical guidance and resources on how to share power with communities in health research priority-setting. This paper presents an "ethical toolkit" for academic researchers and their community partners to use to design priority-setting processes that meaningfully include the communities impacted by their projects. An empirical reflective equilibrium approach was employed to develop the toolkit. Conceptual work articulated ethical considerations r

SUBMITTER: Pratt B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8145852 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature