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Safeguarding community-centred global health research during crises. (2023)
Journal Article
Agampodi, T., Nuwangi, H., Gunasekara, S., Mallawaarachchi, A., Price, H. P., Dikomitis, L., & Agampodi, S. (2023). Safeguarding community-centred global health research during crises. BMJ Global Health, 8(8), Article e013304. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013304

Summary box Global health researchers face multiple challenges in proceeding with research programmes during crises, including ethical and safety questions, equitable participation of community members and the collection of robust data. In Sri La... Read More about Safeguarding community-centred global health research during crises..

The stigma associated with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL): A protocol for a systematic review (2023)
Journal Article
Nuwangi, H., Agampodi, T. C., Price, H. P., Shepherd, T., Weerakoon, K. G., & Agampodi, S. B. (2023). The stigma associated with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL): A protocol for a systematic review. PloS one, 18(5), Article ARTN e0285663. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285663

Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease with three main clinical types; cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL), and visceral leishmaniasis (VL). CL and MCL are considered to be highly stigmatizing due to potentially dis... Read More about The stigma associated with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (MCL): A protocol for a systematic review.

Systematic review of community engagement approach in research: describing partnership approaches, challenges and benefits (2023)
Journal Article
Abebe, H., Zerihun, Z., Mallen, C., Price, H., Mulugeta, A., & Taffere, G. (2023). Systematic review of community engagement approach in research: describing partnership approaches, challenges and benefits. Journal of Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-022-01799-9

Background Community engagement in research has gained momentum as people have realised the importance and value it brings to research. However, a lack of standardization in the engagement approach has been reported in the literature. This systemati... Read More about Systematic review of community engagement approach in research: describing partnership approaches, challenges and benefits.

Rewriting the history of leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka: An untold story since 1904. (2022)
Journal Article
Nuwangi, H., Weerakoon, K., Agampodi, T., Price, H., Dikomitis, L., & Agampodi, S. (2022). Rewriting the history of leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka: An untold story since 1904. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, e0010918 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010918

Leishmaniasis is widely considered a disease that emerged in Sri Lanka in the 1990s. However, a comprehensive case report from 1904 suggests that the presence of Leishmaniasis was well demonstrated in Sri Lanka long before that. The Annual Administra... Read More about Rewriting the history of leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka: An untold story since 1904..

Exploring the cultural effects of gender on perceptions of cutaneous leishmaniasis: a systematic literature review. (2022)
Journal Article
Wenning, B., Price, H., Nuwangi, H., Reda, K., Viana, G., Andras, A., …Ehsanullah, R. (2022). Exploring the cultural effects of gender on perceptions of cutaneous leishmaniasis: a systematic literature review. Global Health Research and Policy, 7, Article 34. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41256-022-00266-y

BACKGROUND: More than one million people each year become infected by parasites that cause the disease cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). This disease manifests as one or more skin lesions or ulcers that are slow to heal with variable response rates to dr... Read More about Exploring the cultural effects of gender on perceptions of cutaneous leishmaniasis: a systematic literature review..

Community engagement in cutaneous leishmaniasis research in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Sri Lanka: a decolonial approach for global health (2022)
Journal Article
Polidano, K., Agampodi, T., Parton, L., Agampodi, S., Haileselassie, B., Lalani, J., …Zerihun, Z. (2022). Community engagement in cutaneous leishmaniasis research in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Sri Lanka: a decolonial approach for global health. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.823844

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a parasitic skin disease endemic in at least 88 countries where it presents an urgent, albeit often "neglected" public health problem. In this paper, we discuss our model of decolonial community engagement in the ECLIP... Read More about Community engagement in cutaneous leishmaniasis research in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Sri Lanka: a decolonial approach for global health.