Transferring Ethnopharmacological Results Back to Traditional Healers in Rural Indigenous Communities – The Ugandan Greater Mpigi Region Example

Abstract In ethnopharmacology, scientists often survey indigenous communities to identify and collect natural remedies such as medicinal plants that are yet be investigated pharmacologically in a laboratory setting. The Nagoya Protocol provided international agreements on financial benefit sharing. However, what has only been poorly defined these the non-financial benefits for local intellectual property right owners, traditional healers who originally respective ethnomedicinal information. Unfortunately, ethnopharmacologists still rarely return communities. this video article, authors present method transferring results back rural communities, taking authors’ previous studies among 39 Uganda an example. approach is based two-day workshop, presented original footage article. work demonstrated successful ensuring bidirectional communication while fostering future scientific community-work collaborations. believe it moral duty of contribute knowledge transfer feedback once study completed. workshop method, example science outreach, might also regarded valuable contribution research education theory communication.