About Empowering Communities through University Partnerships in Public Health
In many parts of the world, communities have had little voice in national public health initiatives. Health providers often take a top-down approach, ‘preaching’ to families about how they should live more healthy lives and ignoring their everyday realities. This Medical Research Council (MRC) funded project pilots a new approach to university and community partnerships in public health.
This project is housed in the Centre for Reproduction, Technologies and Health (CORTH) at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK, in co-partnership with the Research Centre for Educational Innovation and Development (CERID) and the Institute of Medicine (IoM) at Tribhuvan University, Katmandu, Nepal, and the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines.
Our interdisciplinary team from education and public health is setting out to explore how universities can contribute directly to transforming attitudes towards marginalised communities. The project draws on participatory and ethnographic methods to share beliefs and co-construct knowledge around food and nutrition and explore how university-community partnerships can be respectfully developed to benefit health and education.
For a full introduction to our project what a recording of our introductory presentation and download our slides below.
To ask any questions about the project or to get in touch with any of the team, please email, Dr Laura Burke on lb776 (at) sussex.ac.uk
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