Alun Davies is a Senior Programmes Manager, leading the Mesh community engagement network for the Global Health Network. Mesh is an online network for people working in community engagement with global health research. It is a collaborative, open access knowledge hub where community engagement practitioners, researchers, health workers and others can network, share resources and discuss good practice.
Alun has two decades’ experience of health research and engagement in a wide range of countries, including leading a WHO Technical Working Group for Good Participatory Practice on a large multi-country adaptive platform trial. He has published widely on participatory visual methods, community engagement and informed consent, including a literature review in this area in relation to large platform trials. The latter is part of a larger collaborative piece of work for the WHO towards “creating truly inclusive and ethical future research in public health emergencies.” Most recently, Alun led a rapid research project gathering the views of global health professionals towards informing WHO’s Interim guidance on social and behavioural research for the Mpox public health response.
