Community Advisory Boards at OUCRU

The discussions among Community Advisory Boards at OUCRU have been helping the researchers understand more about the public concerns and get feedback from the community that can be beneficial to their research.

Community advisory boards (CAB) at OUCRU consist of representatives from the public and researchers, doctors, and coordinators from OUCRU. The two groups will discuss and exchange information that will help for research, on a particular topic (e.g. COVID-19), or for a particular target group (e.g., adolescents). The discussion results help the researchers or doctors understand more about the public concerns on a certain topic and get feedback from the community that can be beneficial to their work and/or research. On the other hand, the board meeting is a chance for community members to meet researchers and doctors directly and have their questions answered. OUCRU organises two such groups: the Hepatitis C Community Advisory Board and the Health Research Advisory Board.

The below infographic explains how the advisory board works at OUCRU and how to join.

The video below, produced by the Public and Community Engagement team, features interviews with researchers who have received valuable feedback from the Community Advisory Group at OUCRU.

Advisory Boards at OUCRU

Health Research Advisory Board

DURATION

Since October 2021

The OUCRU Health Research Advisory Board (HRAB), established in October 2021, is a group of interested individuals from the community, who are invited to meet with health professionals and researchers to contribute opinions, feedback, and suggestions for public health research conducted by OUCRU.

Hepatitis C Community Advisory Board

DURATION

2020 – now

With the hepatitis infection rates remaining high in the country, we want to understand more about patients’ experiences living with Hep C in Vietnam. With the help of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases HCMC (HTD), we have established a patient community advisory board (CAB) to engage with the Hep C community. Through this, we link doctors, researchers, and the wider hepatitis patient community

Developing a Community Advisory Board to monitor antibiotic usage on small chicken farms

FUNDED BY

Seed Awards

This project aimed to identify feasible solutions for promoting the practice of writing a farming diary. The aim of the farming diary was to improve the recording of antibiotics usage and expenditure on- farm, which in turn would improve the awareness toward responsible use of antibiotics. To do that, we established and developed the capability for a Community Advisory Board (CAB) which would act as a bridge between the research group and the communities involved in our research.

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Child and Adolescent Advisory Group

DURATION

2020

In this project, 8 to 12 children, consented and enrolled in the SURE trial were invited to join the Child and Adolescent Advisory Group (CAAG). Insightful data was collected through this preliminary project allowing researchers to better understand the perceptions, emotions and expectations of sick children enrolled in a clinical trial. Read More

MetLep Trial Community Advisory Board

DURATION

2020

We established a Community Advisory Board (CAB) in Jayapura, Papua Province, as part of the ‘MetLep’ Trial. This trial is seeking to understand the efficacy and tolerability of using Metformin in combination with standard multidrug treatment for multibacillary leprosy.