Empowering community researchers’ voices: Lessons from ARISE community-based participatory research (CBPR) in Bangladesh

This poster was originally presented at the 8th Annual Symposium on Health Systems Research in Nagasaki, Japan. Authors are Muhammad Riaz Hossain, Nazia Islam, Mst. Nusrat Jahan, Tasmiha Amin Oishy, Bachera Aktar and Sabina Faiz Rashid.

Inequalities in knowledge production disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities (John & Rempala, 2024). Socioeconomic, gender, and institutional hierarchies contribute to epistemological inequalities, impacting research relationships and knowledge creation (Hammett et al., 2024; Mikkonen et al., 2017). The ARISE project challenges this by using CBPR to empower communities to co-produce knowledge, particularly focusing
on health and wellbeing systems.