Inclusion and exclusion criteria
| Topic | Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
| Intervention/population | Describes a specific community engagement approach or activity | Exclusively community health worker programmes Structures without community members serving the same community |
| Focus | Prevention and/or control of infectious diseases: Ebola, SARS, Middle East respiratory syndrome, Zika and H1N1 | Not focused on prevention and/or control of infectious disease |
| Scope of intervention | Community level—defined by ‘the social boundaries that define the individuals and households whose health outcomes matter as a health system goal, and also the social context for the relationships that underpin the success of many health systems interventions’.77 | Not community focused |
| Time | Published on or after 2000 | Published before 2000 |
| Article type | Primary, empirical studies, of any design, programme reports and descriptions that provide learning on specific CE approaches | Commentaries, abstracts; no specific community engagement approach detailed |
| Language | All languages included, searching done in English and some French terms | No exclusion criteria |