The resource addresses the central question as to whether citizen engagement in knowledge production could enable inclusive health policymaking. Building on non-health work fields, the authors describe different types of citizen engagement in scientific research, or ‘Citizen Science’. The article describes the challenges that Citizen Science poses for public health, and how these could be addressed. The resource provides also a draft framework to enable the evaluation of Citizen Science in practice, consisting of a descriptive typology of different kinds of Citizen Science and a causal framework that shows how Citizen Science in public health might benefit both the knowledge produced as well as the ‘Citizen Scientists’ as active participants.
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Target groups: RPOs, CSOs, Policymakers,