Challenges and facilitators for meaningful and impactful stakeholder engagement in global health research

Adnani, QES, Fernandes, G, Kinley, E ORCID: 0000-0001-5934-7023 and Williams, S (2026) Challenges and facilitators for meaningful and impactful stakeholder engagement in global health research. Jornal of Global Health, 16. ISSN 2047-2978

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Abstract

Stakeholder engagement is increasingly required in global health research, yet its implementation often remains underexamined, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Drawing on literature and experience from a multinational respiratory research programme, this viewpoint highlights how structural constraints, ethical ambiguity, power dynamics, and socio-cultural factors can undermine meaningful engagement. Without reflexive, adequately resourced, and institutionally supported approaches, stakeholder engagement risks becoming symbolic rather than transformative. Funders and institutions must therefore invest in flexible, long-term, and context-sensitive engagement models that genuinely reflect and respond to the communities global health research seeks to serve.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Humans; Biomedical Research; Developing Countries; Global Health; Stakeholder Participation; LMIC; ethics; global health; low- and middle-income country; research; respiratory health; stakeholder engagement; Humans; Global Health; Stakeholder Participation; Developing Countries; Biomedical Research; 4206 Public Health; 42 Health Sciences; Social Determinants of Health; 8.1 Organisation and delivery of services; Generic health relevance; 3 Good Health and Well Being; Humans; Global Health; Stakeholder Participation; Developing Countries; Biomedical Research; 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 4206 Public health
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Divisions:	Psychology (from Sep 2019)
Publisher:	International Society of Global Health
Date of acceptance:	9 April 2026
Date of first compliant Open Access:	4 August 2026
Date Deposited:	04 Aug 2026 12:49
Last Modified:	04 Aug 2026 12:49
DOI or ID number:	10.7189/jogh.16.03016
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/29101

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