How Should Public Health Schools Help Meet Millennium Development Goals in Latin America?

Abstract

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of 8 aims adopted by the United Nations to create a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world. Four MDGs directly concern public health, and public health schools should be involved in meeting them. The Johns Hopkins University-directed Fogarty Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program in Peru and Bolivia, funded by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health, has spanned nearly 3 decades and provides a case study of how low-resource interventions can help meet MDGs.

Global Health Perspectives on Race in Research: Neocolonial Extraction and Local Marginalization

“…Better regulation and management of research with expanded capacities of in-country research agencies are needed for LMICs to have autonomy over research conducted locally. The training and development of research ethics committees (RECs) and institutional review boards (IRBs) in LMICs has been among the goals of training activities [ 179 , 180 , 181 , 182 , 183 , 184 , 185 ]. As autochthonous research capacity in LMICs expands, so will the need to ensure reviews of local research proposals by ethics review boards, provide ethical oversight with data and safety monitoring boards, and ensure expert guidance [ 186 , 187 , 188 , 189 , 190 , 191 , 192 , 193 , 194 , 195 , 196 , 197 ].…”

“…The training and development of research ethics committees (RECs) and institutional review boards (IRBs) in LMICs has been among the goals of training activities [179][180][181][182][183][184][185]. As autochthonous research capacity in LMICs expands, so will the need to ensure reviews of local research proposals by ethics review boards, provide ethical oversight with data and safety monitoring boards, and ensure expert guidance [186][187][188][189][190][191][192][193][194][195][196][197].…”

Global Perspectives on Race in Health Research: Neocolonial Extraction and Local Marginalization

“…Better regulation and management of research with expanded capacities of in-country research agencies is needed for LMICs to have autonomy over research conducted locally. Training and development of research ethics committees (RECs) and institutional review boards (IRBs) in LMICs has been among the goals of training activities [174][175][176][177][178][179][180]. As autochthonous research capacity in LMICs expands, so will the need to ensure review of local research proposals by ethics review boards, provide ethical oversight with data and safety monitoring boards, and ensure expert guidance [181][182][183][184][185][186][187][188][189][190][191][192].…”