{ "abstract": "This essay discusses the interplay of epistemological-methodological approaches and research practices developed within a global health study that aims to understand and strengthen community actions and organizing by – and preserve the memories of – made-marginalized places and people during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project has brought together community actors and social justice scholar-advocates in two Global South countries (Brazil and Peru) and two Global North countries (Canada and Germany) to explore and dialogue around how community mobilization efforts during the pandemic sought to influence policymaking toward health equity and social justice. Rather than emphasizing our research results per se, we relay our experiences of countering dominant, asymmetrical approaches to global health research, both in theory and practice, based on a shared belief that community engagement is central to societal transformation. We provide an in-depth account of how we have carried out our project – through what we aspirationally name Dialogical and Non-extractivist Approaches (DNA) – using an analytic narration of the possibilities of global health research anchored in an ethical dialogic praxis, guided by principles of non-extractivism and Freirean action research.", "abstract_shown": true, "affiliations": [ "School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.", "School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.", "Department of Community Health, Hochschule für Gesundheit University of Applied Sciences Bochum, Bochum, Germany.", "Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.", "Department of Social Work, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Canada.", "Institute for Critical Urban Geography, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.", "Institute of International Relations, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.", "Brazil Institute, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.", "Department of Health Sciences, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany.", "Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Research Productivity Fellow - Level 1A, Brasilia, Brazil.", "Institute of the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany.", "Institute of Medical Humanities, Université de Lausanne - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.", "Department of Global Development Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada." ], "article_type": "Essay", "arxiv": null, "author_total": 14, "authors": [ { "affs": [ 0 ], "name": "Ruth Iguiñiz-Romero", "orcid": "0000-0002-9973-4981" }, { "affs": [ 1 ], "name": "Pamella Liz Nunes Pereira", "orcid": "0000-0002-7276-9922" }, { "affs": [ 2 ], "name": "Christiane Falge" }, { "affs": [ 3 ], "name": "Stephanie Mayell", "orcid": "0009-0000-4744-0079" }, { "affs": [ 4 ], "name": "Mylène Fauvel", "orcid": "0009-0006-3721-3255" }, { "affs": [ 5 ], "name": "Theresa Martens", "orcid": "0009-0003-5387-8394" }, { "affs": [ 6, 7 ], "name": "Luiza Witzel Farias", "orcid": "0000-0003-3389-7435" }, { "affs": [ 0 ], "name": "Lucero Diaz Gomez", "orcid": "0009-0005-8363-0394" }, { "affs": [ 1 ], "name": "Paulo Trivellato", "orcid": "0000-0002-3372-2494" }, { "affs": [ 8 ], "name": "Franziska Satzinger", "orcid": "0000-0001-9230-4180" }, { "affs": [ 1, 9 ], "name": "Deisy de Freitas Lima Ventura", "orcid": "0000-0001-8237-2470" }, { "affs": [ 10 ], "name": "Michael Knipper", "orcid": "0000-0002-8469-7575" }, { "affs": [ 11 ], "name": "Laurence Monnais" }, { "affs": [ 12 ], "name": "Anne-Emanuelle Birn", "orcid": "0000-0002-0314-5913" } ], "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/aqwq79kdkr57v.bib", "cited_by": 0, "doi": "10.1371/journal.pgph.0006384", "fulltext_url": "https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0006384", "id": "aqwq79kdkr57v", "issns": [ "2767-3375" ], "landing_url": "https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0006384", "language": "eng", "licence": "CC-BY", "licence_label": "CC BY", "licence_source": "article", "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "metadata_licence": null, "native_subjects": [ [ "openalex", "3600|Community Health and Development" ], [ "plos", "/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive science/Cognitive psychology/Learning/Human learning" ], [ "plos", "/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Learning and memory/Learning/Human learning" ], [ "plos", "/Biology and life sciences/Psychology/Cognitive psychology/Learning/Human learning" ], [ "plos", "/Medicine and health sciences/Epidemiology/Pandemics" ], [ "plos", "/Medicine and health sciences/Medical conditions/Infectious diseases/Viral diseases/COVID 19" ], [ "plos", "/Medicine and health sciences/Public and occupational health" ], [ "plos", "/Medicine and health sciences/Public and occupational health/Global health" ], [ "plos", "/People and places/Demography/Indigenous populations" ], [ "plos", "/People and places/Geographical locations/South America/Brazil" ], [ "plos", "/Research and analysis methods/Research design" ], [ "plos", "/Social sciences/Anthropology/Indigenous populations" ], [ "plos", "/Social sciences/Psychology/Cognitive psychology/Learning/Human learning" ] ], "openalex": "W7223252385", "pdf_url": "https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0006384&type=printable", "pmcid": "PMC13690200", "pmid": "42911981", "published": "2026-10-22", "publisher": "Public Library of Science", "ris": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/aqwq79kdkr57v.ris", "sources": [ { "first_seen": "2026-10-30T12:17:23Z", "native_id": "10.1371/journal.pgph.0006384", "source": "plos", "url": "https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0006384" }, { "first_seen": "2026-10-30T12:20:10Z", "native_id": "MED:42911981", "source": "europepmc", "url": "https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42911981" } ], "subjects": [ { "field": "biology", "origin": "plos:neuroscience", "subfield": "neuroscience" }, { "field": "medicine", "origin": "plos:epidemiology", "subfield": "epidemiology-public-health" } ], "title": "Community mobilization and policy demands in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: A transnational dialogic non-extractive research approach", "title_text": "Community mobilization and policy demands in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: A transnational dialogic non-extractive research approach", "type": "peer-reviewed", "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:20:10Z", "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/aqwq79kdkr57v", "venue": "PLOS Global Public Health", "versions": [] }