Facilitating a Remote Community Advisory Board to Engage Practitioners during Complex Emergencies - An Example from Northwest Syria
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: A Community Advisory Board (CAB) engages a study’s target population in the research process. However, little scholarship exists to guide research to facilitate an online CAB during complex emergencies. This article describes how research exploring perspectives on good social work in complex emergencies, through a study of Northwest Syria, designed and facilitated an online CAB with international and Syrian practitioners. This study found engaging practitioners in a pilot study helped promote the relevance of the overall research to the Syrian culture and context and that carefully designed research could benefit practitioners. This process also demonstrated how ethical research in complex emergencies should be relevant and useful to participants. Ultimately, this article argues that engaging practitioners through a CAB helps improve research relevance and may benefit practitioners.
Source: Intervention
Authors: Karen E. Paul, Lana Al Houssami, Martha Bragin
Institutions: McGill University, City University of New York, Hunter College
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $500
OpenAlex ID: W7156027754