Expert workshop - Participatory community-based research: reflections on the why and how?

Background

In this seminar, our focus will be on methods, processes and challenges involved in setting up and conducting community-based participatory research and implementing co-creation approaches. We will use examples from our own previous studies with affected communities from HIV and COVID-19 (i.e. community-based HIV prevalence study, COVID-19 community responses among ethnic minorities, PrEP in migrant communities). Based on the learnings from these initiatives, we will discuss the processes and challenges encountered, and offer our own reflections on the ‘why and how’ of facilitating this participatory research when working with communities for improving health outcomes.

Speakers

• Christiana Nöstlinger is a senior research fellow, health psychologist and behavioural scientist at the Unit of Sexual Health including HIV. Her fields of expertise and interests include sexual health promotion and HIV prevention for vulnerable populations, systematic development of sexual health interventions and evaluation with and for vulnerable and key populations both in Europe and low and middle-income countries.

• Ella Van Landeghem is a junior researcher and health sociologist at the Unit of Sexual Health including HIV. Her fields of expertise and interests include migration as a social determinant of health, intersectionality, sexual and reproductive health, and qualitative research methods.