“…Important work in the ethical conduct of global health research has carefully considered how the context of low-resource settings (LRS) can exacerbate the burdens of research for participants, even in ‘minimal risk’ research [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ]. Participants face complex and often severe challenges in daily living due to poverty, geopolitical uprisings, sociopolitical, economic, and climate crises [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ]. Researchers and frontline research staff in LRS experience similar risks as they work, and often live, within the same complex daily living environments and are exposed to the same underlying socioeconomic disparities [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ].…”