OHTN conducts and funds impact-focused research that involves people living with HIV and other research users in meaningful ways and that draws on their knowledge and experience. This participation is vital to developing research questions, to anticipating challenges and to translating research findings into programs and services. To enable community engagement in research, Universities Without Walls supports capacity building amongst peer researchers and OHTN supports research initiatives to understand and address barriers to community engagement in research.

Key Facts and Research Findings

• Representatives of community organizations or community members are the source of specific knowledge and insight that can increase relevance of research and validity of results.
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research
• Culturally appropriate engagement with Indigenous Elders is vital for promoting positive relationships and culturally safe research that respects ceremony and Indigenous ways of knowing, when conducting HIV community-based research with Indigenous communities.
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research, Indigenous Peoples
• 91 people living with HIV where part of OHTN-funded research teams in in 2015-16 (page 88)
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research
• The number of peer workers involved in injection drug use programs in Ontario has increased by 80% in the last 3 years (2013-16). (page 88)
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research, People who use Drugs, Substance Use

Related Studies

• This is Not Art Therapy
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research, Current Studies, Engagement, People Living with HIV, Research Pages
• Engaging Marginalized Populations in the Conduct of HIV Community Based Research
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research, Completed Studies, OHTN, People who use Drugs, Research Pages
• Wise Funding Practice
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research, Completed Studies, Indigenous Peoples, OHTN
• Facilitators and Barriers to HIV-Related Health Research
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research
• Grounding Prevention Practice in the Real Needs and Interests of Rural and Urban Men who have Sex with Men in Simcoe County, Ontario
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research, Completed Studies, Men who Have Sex with Men, OHTN, Research Pages, Stigma
• weSpeak: Reducing HIV vulnerabilities and promoting resilience among self-identified heterosexual African, Caribbean and Black Men in Ontario
  Filed under: African, Caribbean and Black Communities, Community Engagement in Research, Current Studies, OHTN, Prevention, Research Pages

Related Researchers

• Winston Husbands
  Filed under: African, Caribbean and Black Communities, Community Engagement in Research, OHTN, people, Prevention, Research Pages, Stigma
• Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research, Neurocognitive Disorders, OHTN, people, People Living with HIV, Research Pages
• Josephine Pui-Hing Wong
  Filed under: African, Caribbean and Black Communities, Community Engagement in Research, OHTN, people, Prevention, Research Pages, Stigma
• Sean B. Rourke
  Filed under: Care, Community Engagement in Research, Employment, Engagement, Food Security, Housing, Interventions Across the Cascade, Mental Health, Neurocognitive Disorders, OHTN, People Living with HIV, Research Pages, Stigma
• Alan Li
  Filed under: African, Caribbean and Black Communities, Community Engagement in Research, Engagement, Men who Have Sex with Men, Mental Health, OHTN, People Living with HIV, Prevention, Research Pages, Stigma
• Colin Kovacs
  Filed under: Care, Co-infections, Community Engagement in Research, Neurocognitive Disorders, OHTN, people, Research Pages

OHTN Resources

• Understanding HIV through art
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research, HIV Endgame Conference, People Living with HIV
• REACH 2.0 / Community-Based Research Collaborative
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research, Current Studies, OHTN, Research Pages
• The OHTN’s Approach to PRA Engagement and Support
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research
• OHTN Community-Based Research and Evaluation Fund
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research
• Universities without Walls
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research
• Back to Basic Conference Report
  Filed under: At-risk Women, Care, Co-infections, Community Engagement in Research, Interventions Across the Cascade, Men who Have Sex with Men
• What’s Hot With Peer Researchers Online Talk Show
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research
• Back to Basic conference report
  Filed under: At-risk Women, Care, Co-infections, Community Engagement in Research, Engagement, Men who Have Sex with Men, Other Comorbidities, Prevention, Reports
• Exploring Community-Academic Partnerships in HIV-related Research: A Systematic Review of the Literature
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research

Other Resources

• Universities Without Walls (external link)
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research, External Links, People Living with HIV
• Healthier Together: The CIHR Partnerships Casebook including the Positive Spaces, Healthy Places case study
  Filed under: Community Engagement in Research, Housing

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