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This is the seventh episode of our series, Spotlight on community engagement and involvement (CEI): leaving no one behind.  Our host, Heidi Surridge, is joined by authors of the NIHR/Mesh CEI online course, An Introduction and Practical Guide to CEI in Global Health Research - Gill Black, Managing Director and Head of Engaged Research at the Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation, Alun Davies, Senior...

This is the sixth episode of our series, Spotlight on community engagement and involvement (CEI): Leaving no one behind. Host, Dr Saumu Lwembe, is joined by NIHR-funded researchers, Dr Munzer Alkhalil, Research Fellow at London School of Economics, and Professor Getnet Tadele, Professor at Addis Ababa University, who share their experiences of conducting CEI as part of their health systems researc...

This is the fifth episode of our series, Spotlight on community engagement and involvement (CEI): Leaving no one behind. NIHR-funded researchers, Renata Peppl, Daisy Bin Co, Iliana Curiel and Monsermín Gualan join host, Razina Hussain to share their experiences of engaging Indigenous and native communities in health research in Latin America.  Thank you to Lucia Alvarez and Ana Lorena Guerrero who...

This is the fourth episode of our series, Spotlight on community engagement and involvement (CEI): Leaving no one behind. Host Mark Lutton, NIHR Assistant Director for Global Health Programmes is joined by Sweta Pal, Director of CEI for NAMASTE at Sangath , Dr Natasha Fothergill-Misbah, Research Associate at Newcastle University, and Dr Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata, Post-doctoral Scientist at MRC/UVRI...

Gary Hickey, NIHR Senior Research Manager for Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement hosts this episode and is joined by Dr Jayakayatri Jeevajothi Nathan, Research Manager at Universiti Malaya, Farzana Khan, Chief Executive Director of Fasiuddin Khan Research Foundation, and Jo Vearey, Associate Professor at the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand.  Tog...

Conversations to Cultivate Change: Leading with purpose - Professor Robina Coker on building a career, mentorship and research In this episode, host Dr Keerti Gedela is joined by Professor Robina Coker, professor of practice and consultant in respiratory medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Robina was previously the clinical director of the NIHR Clinical Research Network North West L...

This is the second episode of our series, Spotlight on community engagement and involvement (CEI): Leaving no one behind.  Heidi Surridge, NIHR Senior Research Manager for CEI, hosts this episode and is joined by Prince Tommy Williams, Executive Director of Lifeline Nehemiah Projects , Mangenda Kamara, Co-founder of 2YoungLives , and Sanjog Thakuri, Consultant on Child Participation, Governance an...

This is the first episode of our podcast series, Spotlight on community engagement and involvement (CEI): Leaving no one behind.  Episode 1 introduces the Leave No One Behind agenda and discusses its importance in the context of CEI.  Gary Hickey, NIHR Senior Research Manager for Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement hosts this podcast and is joined by Professor Kara Hanson, Director of Gl...

In this episode of Conversations to Cultivate Change, host Dr Keerti Gedela sits down with consultant ophthalmologist and Director of Research & Development, Dr Christiana Dinah, to explore her inspiring journey through medicine and research. From her early years in Nigeria to breaking barriers in UK healthcare, Christiana shares her experiences of being championed and underestimated, navigati...

Antipsychotic medicines reduce the risk of psychotic episodes – and they are recommended for long-term use by people with schizophrenia or recurrent psychosis. But the medicines can have such unpleasant side effects that people prescribed these drugs may want to reduce or to stop them. In this podcast, Helen Saul, Editor in Chief of NIHR Evidence, speaks with Joanna Moncrieff, Professor of Critica...

Green and blue spaces could improve mental health through the opportunities they provide to socialise and exercise; it could also be that these spaces improve air quality. But other factors, such as wealth, may explain this difference. In this podcast, Helen Saul, Editor in Chief of NIHR Evidence, speaks with Sarah Rogers, Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Liverpool about the im...

The NHS is paying increasing attention to leadership within clinical teams. Leadership training can be delivered in different ways, for example, to the team leader alone or to all team members. However, it is not clear which approaches work best. Researchers looked at leadership training for surgeons, and asked what makes training effective. In this podcast, Helen Saul, Editor in Chief of NIHR Evi...

Professor Martin Tobin and Dr Catherine John talk to Professor Turi King about the first 10 years of the NIHR Leicester EXCEED Study, from its original aims through to the research questions its data is helping to answer today. EXCEED (Extended Cohort for E-health, Environment and DNA) is a longitudinal health study that looks at the causes of long-term health conditions by collecting information...

Discover how the UK is taking vaccine research delivery to the next level with NIHR support. During the pandemic the UK demonstrated its ability to deliver vaccine trials at pace and scale. In this podcast you will hear how that UK expertise and capability is being harnessed to drive rapid development of future vaccines. Professors Andrew Ustianowski and Saul Faust discuss four key areas of work n...

In this episode we are exploring public health research - what it is and how it can help people to live healthier and longer lives. For many people their only experience of public health research will be related to infection prevention and protection during the COVID19 pandemic.  But that's just one area of public health research and this podcast explores the bigger picture of what public hea...

his short new NIHR podcast series hosted by Professor William Hope, Dame Sally Davies Chair of AMR Research and Co-Lead of the NIHR Infectious Diseases National Specialty Group, brings together experts in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) to discuss the threat posed by AMR and what can and should be done to tackle the problem. In this third episode, William is joined by Professor David Paterson, Prof...

This short new NIHR podcast series hosted by Professor William Hope, Dame Sally Davies Chair of AMR Research and Co-Lead of the NIHR Infectious Diseases National Specialty Group, brings together experts in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) to discuss the threat posed by AMR and what can and should be done to tackle the problem. In this second episode, William is joined by medical mycologist Professor...

This short new NIHR podcast series hosted by Professor William Hope, Dame Sally Davies Chair of AMR Research and Co-Lead of the NIHR Infectious Diseases National Specialty Group, brings together experts in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) to discuss the threat posed by AMR and what can and should be done to tackle the problem. In this first episode, William is joined by Professor Susan Hopkins, Chie...

The global pandemic has had a huge influence on how we work. This episode, with guests from multiple NIHR funded projects, explores how the COVID-19 pandemic affected community engagement and involvement (CEI) activities, as well as how CEI and research was adapted to cater to local restrictions and changing context. The guest speakers describe how CEI is embedded in their research, how it has ben...

We speak to members of an NIHR funded project researching Stillbirth Prevention and Management in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia and discuss how CEI contributed to and enriched their project. This episode also showcases the impact of CEI on communities, those with lived experience of stillbirth and on both policy and practice. If you’ve listened to any of our podcast series on community engagement an...

With a focus on exploring how power can be effectively shared between researchers and members of the community, host Saumu Lwembe (Assistant Director of PPI and engagement at the NIHR co-ordinating centre, CCF) speaks to Professor Richard Lilford of the University of Birmingham and research groups members, Jayashree Parasheril Kunju and Amar Bahadur Timalsina. They discuss their NIHR funded resear...

In this third episode of our series, you’ll hear from community connectors working in South Africa who play key roles in bridging the gap between research and communities. They are joined by a CEI consultant from the UK and host, NIHR's Gary Hickey. This episode focuses on exploring what connectors do, and the crucial role that they can have in ensuring effective CEI in research. The guests a...

The second episode in this series, split into two parts, discusses the implementation of community engagement and involvement (CEI) across a range of countries and explores the different approaches used across these countries. Host, Doreen Tembo, Global Health Community Engagement and Involvement Lead at the NIHR Coordinating Centre is joined by members of the research team studying Cutaneous Leis...

The second episode in this series, split into two parts, discusses implementation of community engagement and involvement (CEI) across a range of countries and explores the different approaches used across these countries. Host, Doreen Tembo, Global Health Community Engagement and Involvement Lead at the NIHR Coordinating Centre is joined by members of the research team studying Cutaneous Leishman...

This introductory episode focuses on NIHR’s approach to Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI) in the global health research we fund. Gary Hickey, a Senior Public Involvement Manager hosts this podcast and is joined by fellow NIHR colleagues and Assistant Directors of Global Health Research programmes, Sarah Puddicombe and Mike Rogers. In this podcast you’ll also hear from Vijay Rajkumar, a pu...