OUR VISION
To foster a global movement where citizens and communities conduct their own scientific explorations and interventions, to lead to greater control over the conditions that shape their health and well-being.
OUR MISSION
To engage, train and support lay “community scientists” in a shared endeavour that will equip them with research and health promotion capabilities to implement evidence-based, community-owned interventions across a wide range of settings and to connect with each other in a national and international mutual learning network that shares experience and strengthens community-led science.
Six Guiding Principles
Community ownership
Community scientists are the owners of the knowledge they generate, not subjects of it.
Evidence with rigour
Community-generated knowledge is held to sound scientific and ethical standards, regardless of its informal origin
Capacity before intervention
Skills are built within the community first, so that action and enquiry are led from within rather than delivered from outside
Peer learning
Community scientists learn most from one another, across varied settings and populations.
Non-partisan practice
The Academy and its members remain independent of political, religious and ethnic anchored movements
Inclusion
Age, gender, disability, ethnicity or economic status are not barriers to becoming a community scientist