Community mobilization and policy demands in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: A transnational dialogic non-extractive research approach
13 affiliations
- 1School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
- 2School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 3Department of Community Health, Hochschule für Gesundheit University of Applied Sciences Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
- 4Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
- 5Department of Social Work, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Canada.
- 6Institute for Critical Urban Geography, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
- 7Institute of International Relations, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 8Brazil Institute, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
- 9Department of Health Sciences, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany.
- 10Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Research Productivity Fellow - Level 1A, Brasilia, Brazil.
- 11Institute of the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
- 12Institute of Medical Humanities, Université de Lausanne - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
- 13Department of Global Development Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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.
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BibTeX
@article{iguinizromero2026community,
title = {{Community mobilization and policy demands in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: A transnational dialogic non-extractive research approach}},
author = {Ruth Iguiñiz-Romero and Pamella Liz Nunes Pereira and Christiane Falge and Stephanie Mayell and Mylène Fauvel and Theresa Martens and Luiza Witzel Farias and Lucero Diaz Gomez and Paulo Trivellato and Franziska Satzinger and Deisy de Freitas Lima Ventura and Michael Knipper and Laurence Monnais and Anne-Emanuelle Birn},
journal = {PLOS Global Public Health},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1371/journal.pgph.0006384},
url = {https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0006384},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Community mobilization and policy demands in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: A transnational dialogic non-extractive research approach
AU - Ruth Iguiñiz-Romero
AU - Pamella Liz Nunes Pereira
AU - Christiane Falge
AU - Stephanie Mayell
AU - Mylène Fauvel
AU - Theresa Martens
AU - Luiza Witzel Farias
AU - Lucero Diaz Gomez
AU - Paulo Trivellato
AU - Franziska Satzinger
AU - Deisy de Freitas Lima Ventura
AU - Michael Knipper
AU - Laurence Monnais
AU - Anne-Emanuelle Birn
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/22
JO - PLOS Global Public Health
DO - 10.1371/journal.pgph.0006384
UR - https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0006384
AB - 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.
SN - 2767-3375
ER -