GCEI Member Participated In Consultative Session on CEI Toolkit developed under NIHR RIGHT CALL 3 funded CONTROL Project

GCEI Member Participated In Consultative Session on CEI Toolkit developed under NIHR RIGHT CALL 3 funded CONTROL Project

PILL Peshawar, represented by Mian Atiq Ur Rehman, Lead of the National Community Development Workforce, participated in the CEI Toolkit Consultative Workshop for Contextualized Community Engagement for Pakistan.
The Toolkit was developed under the
Cognitive Theory for Depression in TuberculosisTreatment (CONTROL) Program” and will serve as the future framework for CEI/PPIE across Global Health Research programs in Pakistan.

As a member of GCEI, Mian Atiq was invited to provide inputs for the CEI Toolkit. He also delivered a presentation on the CEI dissemination plan and explained the role of the GCEI framework in global community engagement and development.

He narrated the valuable contributions of GCEI senior management Dr. Rakhshi Memon, Prof. Dr. Zainab, Dr. Noor Zaman, and Dr. Tayyaba Kiran in the development of the GCEI group.

Dr. Saima Aleem, Community Engagement Lead and Communication Manager of CONTROL Project, and Dr. Zohaib Khan, Director ORIC-KMU, acknowledged and appreciated PILL’s mental health services and the role of GCEI in advancing community engagement in Pakistan. They expressed hope that the adoption of the CONTROL Program’s CEI Toolkit will be highly valuable for community, patient and public engagement in Pakistan.

Prof. Dr. Saeed Farooq, NIHR Global Research Professor and Professor of Psychiatry and Public Mental Health, School of Medicine, Keele University along with Dr. Zohaib Khan, Director ORIC, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, also spoke on strengthening collaboration among organizations working on community engagement and research for the broader benefit of communities.