PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Policy
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1594293
Citizen science for research in public health: Perspective
Provisionally accepted
- Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine
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In order to enhance health and lessen inequities, public engagement strategies that unite various stakeholders to jointly identify issues and develop alternatives are acknowledged as an essential tactic to support research-informed policy and implementation. Through the use of citizen science methods, researchers can collect and analyze more information and make research more cost-effective by enlisting members of the public as participants. Research on health has already been greatly impacted by the vast and unique data sets acquired through citizen science methodologies. Engaging community viewpoints into public health research and policy-making has proven difficult. Thus, research capacity must be developed to allow academics and policy-making and implementation stakeholders to meaningfully interact with the public. A fundamental tenet of public health is involving the community, which is seen as being vital in ensuring that initiatives and regulations designed for enhancing health and welfare that are pertinent to local needs and make the most from scarce resources.
Keywords: citizen science, policy, Public Engagement, Public Health, research capacity
Received: 15 Mar 2025; Accepted: 15 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Alsaqqa. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Hatem H. Alsaqqa, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine
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