Empowering meaningful CEI in global health research

This learning resource offers a brief set of reflections to help guide decision-making within the context of collaborative research approaches. This text reflects a series of conversations between experienced CEI practitioners over this past year – in the first instance, through participation in the NIHR CEI Expert Advisory Committee and through consultation with NIHR staff and award holders, and later with the co-facilitators of the first learning event hosted by the NIHR and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) on 29 January, 2021: Walter Flores of CEGSS; Erica Nelson, IDS; Alex Shankland, IDS; Mieke Snijder, IDS; and Tom Barker, IDS. In broad brushstrokes, we discuss CEI in design, implementation and adaptation, governance and accountability and lastly, respect for people’s dignity as a core CEI commitment.