<p>Enhancing community engagement and involvement through storytelling</p>

Razina Hussain; Jessie Cunnett; Skye McCool; Swaran Singh; Sally Theobald; Rosalind McCollum; Robyn  Curran; Tanjir Rashid   Soron; Emmanuel Zaizay; Hannah Berrian; Kebeh   Tengbeh; Tiawanlyn G. Godwin-Akpan; Wede  Seekey; Saumu Lwembe

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Hussain R, Cunnett J, McCool S et al. Enhancing community engagement and involvement through storytelling [version 1; not peer reviewed]. NIHR Open Res 2026, 6:22 (document) (https://doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.1115286.1)

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Razina Hussain¹, Jessie Cunnett², Skye McCool², Swaran Singh³, Sally Theobald⁴, Rosalind McCollum⁴, Robyn Curran⁵, Tanjir Rashid Soron ⁶, Emmanuel Zaizay⁷, Hannah Berrian⁸, Kebeh Tengbeh⁹, Tiawanlyn G. Godwin-Akpan¹⁰, Wede Seekey⁸, Saumu Lwembe¹

Published 07 Mar 2026 (https://doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.1115286.1)

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¹ National Institute for Health and Care Research, London, UK
² Jessie Cunnett Consulting Ltd, Sussex, UK
³ University of Warwick, Warwick Applied Health, Coventry, England, UK
⁴ Department for International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
⁵ University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
⁶ Telepsychiatry Research and Innovation Network Ltd, Dhaka, Bangladesh
⁷ NEPA NTDs (Network for persons affected by NTDs), Liberia, Liberia
⁸ University of Liberia Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (UL PIRE), Monrovia, Liberia
⁹ Ministry of Health, Lofa County, Liberia
¹⁰ Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

Copyright © 2026 Hussain R et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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NIHR200129 RIGHT 1 REDRESS Project, NIHR200846 RIGHT 2 TRANSFORM Project, NIHR201816 RIGHT 3 ENHANCE Project

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The study was funded by NIHR (Saumu Lwembe).

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Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI), Global Health Research, Storytelling, Impact, Marginalised Communities, Collaboration

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