Community engagement event at Mpala!

In October of 2022, we hosted a community engagement event at Mpala Research Centre. This event brought together the Turkana Health and Genomics Project (THGP) team, study participants, Turkana leaders, and local scientists to participate in result sharing, discussions about upcoming work, and to communicate any other ideas or issues. More specifically, the event included youth leaders, women leaders, elder and religious leaders, clinical and administrative officers, village elders and administrators, and chiefs. In total, 15 Turkana stakeholders participated in the workshop, including 4 women and 11 men. The event included two days of workshop sessions that were run in and supported by written materials in English, Kiswahili, and Turkana. This event was extremely important, informative, and fun! Given its success, we hope to use this new model for future engagement sessions, in addition to the local meetings we perform on site with each study community.