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There is wide acknowledgement of the need for community engagement in biomedical research, particularly in developing countries. Today, engaging communities has become a critical aspect of planning and implementing biomedical research. The current international research ethics guidelines talk of community engagement as an ethical requirement for research involving human subjects, particularly marginalized populations.1 It is believed that genuine community engagement offers the hope of enhancing recruitment, retention, and participant satisfaction.2–7 However, there is relatively little published experience of community engagement in practice. Recently, the Centre for Bioethics in Eastern and Southern Africa organized dissemination workshops of results of the Wellcome Trust Bioethics Research Project as part of community engagement. The workshops were organized between the 10th of March and the 17th of April, 2008 in Madziabango, Mpemba, and Bangwe in Blantyre, and Tidziwe Centre (UNC) in Lilongwe. The workshops were attended by 32 health workers/research staff and 128 research participants including community leaders.  During the dissemination workshops, participants complained that most researchers do not engage communities in which they conduct research. Yet they feel it is very necessary for researchers to sensitize people in the communities about their research projects before initiating the projects in the communities. They said community engagement would enable community members to be aware of any research project before it is initiated in their communities and this would dispel out rumors and misconceptions that are associated with biomedical research among people. They also felt it would help researchers to work freely in the communities because people would know them and their research in advance. It could also encourage community members to enroll in biomedical research because they would be informed about the research in advance. In this paper, we analyze the issues that came out during the dissemination workshops.

Disseminating research results to research participants and their communities