Hafez, SaliElsayed, ReemIsmail, Sharif2025-01-212025-01-212024Hafez, S., Ismail, S.A., Zibwowa, Z., Alhamshary, N., Elsayed, R., Dhaliwal, M., Samuels, F. and Fakoya, A., 2024. Community interventions for pandemic preparedness: A scoping review of pandemic preparedness lessons from HIV, COVID-19, and other public health emergencies of international concern. PLOS Global Public Health, 4(5), p.e0002758.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002758https://hdl.handle.net/10566/19837Community action is broadly recognised as central to comprehensive and effective system responses to pandemics. However, there is uncertainty about how and where communities can be best supported to bolster long-term resilience and preparedness. We applied a typology of community interventions (Community Informing, Consulting, Involving, Collaborating or Empowering–or CICICE) to cover the diverse range of interventions identified across the literature and used this to structure a scoping review addressing three linked topics: (i) how CICICE interventions have been understood and applied in the literature on epidemic and pandemic preparedness; (ii) the spectrum of interventions that have been implemented to strengthen CICICE and (iii) what evidence is available on their effectiveness in influencing preparedness for current and future emergencies. We drew on peer-reviewed and grey literature from the HIV (from 2000) and COVID-19 pandemics and recent public health emergencies of international concern (from 2008), identified through systematic searches in MEDLINE, Scopus, the Cochrane Collaboration database, supplemented by keyword-structured searches in GoogleScholar and websites of relevant global health organisations.enCommunity ActionCICICE InterventionsPandemic PreparednessEffectiveness EvaluationEpidemic ResponseArticle