Community engagement and implementation science: a hermeneutic review for implementation scientists
Although community engagement has great potential to enhance implementation research, it has not received the attention it deserves. Community engagement can contribute to deeper alliances between researchers and communities, sparking social change needed to improve health equity.
Authors
- Nyanyiwe Mbeye (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4733-7068)
- R. B. H. Tan
- Sherika Hanley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4343-7646)
- Mayuko ItoFuKunaga
- Ye Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6709-3721)
- Elvin H Geng
- Cory D. Bradley
- Minh X. Nguyen
- Radhika Sundararajan
- Joseph D. Tucker
- Zhuoheng Yin
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of London (GB)
- University of North Carolina Health Care (US)
- University of Malawi (MW)
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
- Hanoi Medical University (VN)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- National University Health System (SG)
- Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
- China United Network Communications Group (China) (CN)
- University of KwaZulu-Natal (ZA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Implementation Science Communications
- Published
- 2026-02-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-026-00886-2
- Primary Topic
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00