The Wellcome Trust is a global charity committed to realising the full potential of biomedical research to improve health. For over 70 years the Trust has supported research of the highest quality, with the aim of improving human and animal health – both in the United Kingdom and internationally. Activities funded internationally have included basic clinical and public health research, technology transfer, the medical humanities, and our public engagement grant schemes.
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This edition of Health Exchange presents nine articles from a variety of projects that have been funded through the Trust’s International Engagement grant scheme, which funds public engagement projects in low- and middle-income countries. The scheme has supported around 40 projects since its inception in 2008. It aims to build capacity for, and to stimulate dialogue about, health research and its impact on the public, in a range of community and public contexts in low- and middle-income countries.
The sheer array of articles illustrates the wealth of mechanisms, audiences and motivations behind public engagement initiatives. The articles will take you from fishing communities by Lake Victoria in Uganda to the forests of Suriname, from drama projects with children to meetings with policy makers at the Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health.
We introduce what we mean by public engagement with health research on the next page.
Siân Aggett, The Wellcome Trust
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