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The Participatory Research Newsletter

This monthly newsletter aims to highlight the participatory research initiatives emerging from Participatory Research @ McGill (PRAM), and Community Information, Empowerment and Transparency (CIET), as well as share new opportunities for projects, courses, funding, and more!

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A Month in Review

An ever busy team, below are a few updates from the PRAM/CIET network.

Monthly Meeting

Evaluating the effectiveness of a participatory video education intervention on nutrition literacy and food habits of adolescent girls in rural Ghana

The PRAM team unites monthly to provide project updates, present research protocols, practice dissertations defences, and more.

This month, PhD candidate Mona Ghadirian presented her doctoral research, which examined the effectiveness of a participatory video intervention in promoting critical nutrition literacy of adolescent girls in rural Ghana. What Mona uncovered through her work was that exposure to the participatory video intervention not only led to an increase in critical nutrition literacy, but also had a transformative influence on participants, who modified their nutrition-related behaviour and their environment.

In the video below, you can view an example of this intervention, as well as learn more about Mona's fantastic work!

Fun fact: This was the first in-person PRAM meeting since 2020!

UPCOMING COURSE - MCGILL UNIVERSITY

FMED 604: Advanced Participatory Research in Health

Fall 2022 | In-person sessions | Professor Neil Andersson

FMED 604 is a three-credit research course offered by the Department of Family Medicine at McGill.

Advanced participatory research reflects on the science and discipline of partnerships underlying research. It is concerned with research governance, ownership of research products and relationships behind research objectives and methods. As a discipline or method set, participatory research is co-creation of knowledge through equitable partnerships with people affected by the issue or who will act on its results – patients, health professionals, policy makers, community members or communities.

Check out FMED 604's course outline here!

Registration is open on Minerva! If you have any questions, please contact michaela.field@mcgill.ca

Announcement

We are happy to share that Indigenous partners in Australia received an award to implement a two-year project to support Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-Operative in building an evidence base for community-led approaches to family violence prevention, healing, and response models. Alongside Angela Walsh and Nadia Albert, Dr Andersson will be collaborating on this project, and will aid in the measurement and documentation of the impact, success, and importance of localized interventions.

We are looking forward to knowing more about Wathaurong and their community led approaches!

New Faces, New Roles

PRAM team updates!

Khalid Umer Siddiqui

Longtime PRAM team member Khalid Umer Siddiqui, who has previously worked on CIET participatory research projects in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria, will be entering McGill as a doctoral student under the supervision of Dr Anne Cockcroft. Khalid's doctoral research will be linked to an ongoing project on adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Bauchi.

Loubna Belaid

We are thrilled to announce and congratulate Dr Loubna Belaid on her new role as Assistant Professor at École Nationale d'Administration Publique (ÉNAP)! Loubna recently completed her post-doctoral fellowship with PRAM, assessing the feasibility, acceptability, implementation, and impact of community-led interventions on maternal and child health.

Yasmine Elmi

Newcomer to the PRAM network, Yasmine Elmi, will be beginning her master's in McGill's Department of Family Medicine under the supervision of Dr Anne Cockcroft. Congratulations are also in order, as Yasmine is entering the program as one of the prestigious McCall MacBain Scholars!

Jenna Santagata

Jenna Santagata is a third-year medical student at the University of Sherbrooke, who plans to make a career in family medicine in Montreal after qualifying. From a base in Montreal, she is collaborating with PRAM research in Nunavik during the summer. Jenna is part of a team contextualizing the evaluation of cultural safety from stakeholder perspectives.

To meet more PRAM team members, visit our site here.

UPCOMING WORKSHOP - REGISTER NOW!

Tools to support evidence-based and stakeholder-informed decision-making: fuzzy cognitive mapping

Drs Neil Andersson, Iván Sarmiento, and Anna Dion, will be facilitating a half day workshop at the Society for Medical Decision Making's upcoming 44th Annual North American Meeting!

Workshop Details

When? Oct. 23-26 2022

Where? Seattle, WA | Virtual Workshop

Workshop Description: In this virtual, half day workshop, PRAM team presenters will share innovative approaches to engaging patients and other stakeholders around issues that are important to them, particularly those historically excluded from planning and decision-making. Each workshop objective will begin by sharing relevant theoretical and methodological foundations, followed by practice examples from team members' experiences applying these methods in over 11 countries and 19 projects.

Click here to learn more about the conference. Registration is open!

Latest Publications

Highlighted below are some of the most recent publications from the industrious PRAM team:

How Adolescent Mothers Interpret and Prioritize Evidence About Perinatal Child Protection Involvement: Participatory Contextualization of Published Evidence

Authors: Anna Dion, Amy Nakajima, Amy McGee & Neil Andersson

Participatory Video Influenced Behaviour and Social Environment of Ghanaian Female Adolescent Learners: A Most Significant Change Evaluation

Authors: Mona Ghadirian, Grace Marquis, Neil Andersson & Naa Dodoo

Visit our website for more publications from the PRAM team

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