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. 2021 Mar 19:4:15.
doi: 10.12688/aasopenres.13081.1. eCollection 2021.

Community engagement and feedback of results in the H3Africa AWI-Gen project: Experiences from the Navrongo Demographic and Health Surveillance site in Northern Ghana

Godfred Agongo  1 , Cornelius Debpuur  1 , Lucas Amenga-Etego  2 , Engelbert A Nonterah  1   3 , Michael B Kaburise  1 , Abraham Oduro  1 , Michele Ramsay  4 , Paulina Tindana  5
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Community engagement and feedback of results in the H3Africa AWI-Gen project: Experiences from the Navrongo Demographic and Health Surveillance site in Northern Ghana

Godfred Agongo et al. AAS Open Res. .

Abstract

Community and Public engagement (CE) have gained traction as an ethical best practice for the conduct of genomics research, particularly in the context of Africa. In the past 10 years, there has been growing scholarship on the value and practice of engaging key stakeholders including communities involved in genomics research. However, not much has been documented on how research teams, particularly in international collaborative research projects, are navigating the complex process of engagement including the return of key research findings. This paper is part of a series of papers describing the CE processes used in the AWI-Gen study sites. We describe the key processes of engagement, challenges encountered and the major lessons learned. We pay particular attention to the experiences in returning research results to participants and communities within the Demographic and Health Surveillance site in northern Ghana.

Keywords: Community engagement; Ghana; feedback of results; genomics.

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Conflict of interest statement

No competing interests were disclosed.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. AWI-Gen community sensitzation and participant recruitment process.
NHDSS: Navrongo Health and Demographic surveillance system.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. AWI-Gen community and individual feedback process.
QC: quality control, NHRC: Navrongo Health Research Centre.
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