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Introducing

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!

About PRAM

Participatory Research @ McGill (PRAM), is an initiative led by Professor Neil Andersson that promotes scholarship on participatory research, offers expertise and training in participatory research, and increases community and patient engagement in all aspects of health care.

Visit our website to learn more about PRAM and the team.

About CIET

Community Information, Empowerment and Transparency (CIET) is an international group of non-profit foundations, charities, non-governmental organizations, and institutes dedicated to building community voices into planning by increasing research capacity in communities, among local and regional health workers, and in centres of emerging national research capacity.

Click here to learn more about CIET.

Project Updates

We are proud to announce the start of two new projects, funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). Congratulations to all involved!

Photo of Salluit, Nunavik by Elisapie Padlayat

Co-designed cultural safety in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada: proof-of-impact

PI: Neil Andersson | Co-investigators: Anne Cockcroft, Zoua Vang, Faiz Ahmad Khan & Richard Budgell

Cultural safety is key to safe and appropriate health care for Inuit communities in Nunavik, Quebec. Through partnerships with hospitals in Puvirnituq and Kuujjuag and informed by the contributions of service providers, Inuit patients, and communities, this participatory project aims to co-design strategies in hospitals that address the persistence of systemic racism in health care and help improve cultural safety in Nunavik.

Fuzzy cognitive mapping session, Nigeria

Impact oriented dialogue for culturally safe adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Bauchi State, Nigeria

PI: Anne Cockcroft | Co-investigators: Neil Andersson, Yagana Gidado, Umaira Ansari, Loubna Belaid, Claudia Mitchell, Rilwanu Mohammed, & Khalid Umer Siddiqui

This project aims to co-design culturally appropriate interventions to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) in Bauchi, Nigeria. By engaging with adolescents, parents, service providers, and decision makers, this project will identify protective and causal factors and incorporate local knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours around ASHR, to ultimately co-design locally relevant interventions.

Click here to learn more about ongoing PRAM projects

Announcement: Funding Opportunity

The Quebec Indigenous Mentorship Network for Health Research (QIMN) aims to increase the recruitment and retention of Indigenous health researchers* in Quebec, through innovative mentoring strategies.

Through strong mentorship of Indigenous researchers and community-based health research opportunities and experiences, mentees and communities increase capacity to address community research priorities and enact institutional changes.

Contact Iván Sarmiento at ivan.sarmiento@mcgill.ca for more information or to submit your application today.

*QIMN is open to support students directly or those in ongoing programs.

Latest Publications

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

“I had to change my attitude”: narratives of most significant change explore the experience of universal home visits to pregnant women and their spouses in Bauchi State, Nigeria

Authors: Loubna Belaid, Umaira Ansari, Khalid Omer, Yagana Gidado, Muhammed Chadi Baba, Lois Ezekiel Daniel, Neil Andersson & Anne Cockcroft

Safe birth in cultural safety in southern Mexico: a pragmatic non-inferiority cluster-randomised controlled trial

Authors: Iván Sarmiento, Sergio Paredes-Solís, Abraham de Jesús García, Nadia Maciel Paulino, Felipe René Serrano de los Santos, José Legorreta-Soberanis, Germán Zuluaga, Anne Cockcroft & Neil Andersson

Visit our website for more publications from the PRAM team

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