Using Qualitative Research in Community Engagement to Capture and Mitigate Vulnerability Mechanisms in the Face of Infectious Diseases: Insights From a Research-Based Program in Five European Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mandy Geise, Jacob Osborne, Paul Grohma, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Benedetta Lana, Papa Mamadou Diagne, Zeliha Öcek, Uršula Lipovec Čebron, Neza Vodopivec, Anja Brunec, Jean Paul Baldacchino, Maurice Said, Gisella Orsini, Victoria Sultana, Concetta Vaccaro, Anna-Maria Volkmann, Ruth Kutalek, Michel Dückers, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, The Netherlands, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Center for Public Health, Department of Social- and Preventive Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Ecology of Disease Emergence Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Pettenkofer School of Public Health, Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Chair for Public Health and Health Services Research, Medical Faculty, Institute for Medical Information Processing, and Epidemiology , LMU Munich, University of Ljubljana, University of Malta, University College London, ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre, The Netherlands

Qualitative Health Research

Published online on June 16, 2025

Abstract

Qualitative Health Research, Ahead of Print.
Various frameworks have been proposed for carrying out community engagement (CE) in the context of infectious disease response, but few have done so through a lens of vulnerability and even fewer, if any, have compared cases across countries. This paper ...