Successful Global Health Research Partnerships: What Makes Them Work?

John, Chandy C.; George, Ayodo; Musoke, Philippa

doi:10.4269/ajtmh.15-0611

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“…However, such collaborations are beset with inequalities, given the economic disparities, power differentials and disparate research priorities between countries . Successful partnerships involve mutual respect, communication and clear partner roles between HIC and LMIC collaborators . Contrary to our hypothesis, our study showed that authorship parasitism was a relatively rare occurrence.…”

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Authorship in paediatric research conducted in low‐ and middle‐income countries: parity or parasitism?

Rees

Lukolyo

Keating

et al. 2017

Tropical Med Int Health

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Abstractobjectives Interest in global health has increased greatly in the past two decades. Concomitantly, the number and complexity of research partnerships between high-income (HIC) and low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) has grown. We aimed to determine whether there is authorship parity (equitable representation and author order) or parasitism (no authors from study countries) in paediatric research conducted in LMICs.methods We reviewed all articles published from 2006 to 2015 in the four paediatric journals with the highest Eigenfactor scores. We limited our review to articles from LMICs and abstracted information on author affiliation and order, funding source and study design. We calculated Student's t-tests and chi-square using Fisher's exact test with Monte Carlo estimates.

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Authorship in paediatric research conducted in low‐ and middle‐income countries: parity or parasitism?

Rees

Lukolyo

Keating

et al. 2017

Tropical Med Int Health

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“…Several studies demonstrate the importance of taking steps to minimize adverse outcomes to visiting providers, students, and trainees as well as to patients, communities, local providers, and health facilities in LMICs. 63,67,74 Also integral to the prevention of unintended adverse impact is the monitoring of true costs of the program to all institutions involved in the partnership. These include administrative costs for coordination of multiple partners, indirect impact on the community from exposure to short-term visitors, and ensuring appropriate reimbursement and steps to alleviate any undue burden.…”

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Partnerships for Global Child Health

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Child mortality remains a global health challenge and has resulted in demand for expanding the global child health (GCH) workforce over the last 3 decades. Institutional partnerships are the cornerstone of sustainable education, research, clinical service, and advocacy for GCH. When successful, partnerships can become self-sustaining and support development of much-needed training programs in resource-constrained settings. Conversely, poorly conceptualized, constructed, or maintained partnerships may inadvertently contribute to the deterioration of health systems. In this comprehensive, literature-based, expert consensus review we present a definition of partnerships for GCH, review their genesis, evolution, and scope, describe participating organizations, and highlight benefits and challenges associated with GCH partnerships. Additionally, we suggest a framework for applying sound ethical and public health principles for GCH that includes 7 guiding principles and 4 core practices along with a structure for evaluating GCH partnerships. Finally, we highlight current knowledge gaps to stimulate further work in these areas. With awareness of the potential benefits and challenges of GCH partnerships, as well as shared dedication to guiding principles and core practices, GCH partnerships hold vast potential to positively impact child health.

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“…Programs reported innovative teaching opportunities, advanced training courses, and varied settings for patient care that were consistent with best practices for international partnerships. [25][26][27][28][29][30] Our study identified many opportunities for growth in the field of GH fellowship training such as improving interprofessional training, building partnerships with tribal councils, honing advocacy skills, and pairing fellows from high-resource and low-resource institutions. In the face of the rapid increase in GH fellowship programs and the common problems of funding and lack of qualified applicants, it is critical to continually reassess and prioritize needs of the international partners to ensure mutual benefit for all participants.…”

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Status of global health fellowship training in the United States and Canada

Evensen¹,

Duffy

Dawe

et al. 2019

Can. Med. Ed. J

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Background: Increasing numbers of residency graduates desire global health (GH) fellowship training. However, the full extent of training options is not clear. Objective: To identify clinical GH fellowships in all specialties in the U.S. and Canada and to describe their demographics, innovative features, and challenges. Methods: The authors surveyed program directors or designees from GH fellowships with a web-based tool in 2017. Program directors reported demographics and program characteristics. Results: The authors identified 85 potential programs. Fifty-four programs (63.5%) responded confirming 50 fellowships. The number of U.S. GH fellowship programs increased by 89.7% since 2010. One-third of fellowships accepted graduates from more than one specialty. The most common single-specialty programs were Emergency Medicine or Family Medicine. Fellowship duration was most commonly 24 months. Median size was one fellow per year. Funding and lack of qualified applicants were significant challenges. Most programs were funded through fellow billing for patient care or other means of self-support. Conclusions: The number of U.S. and Canadian GH fellowship programs has nearly doubled since 2010. Programs reported lack of funding and qualified applicants as their most significant challenges. Consensus amongst stakeholders regarding training requirements may improve outcomes for future fellows, their employers, and the patients they serve.

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Successful Global Health Research Partnerships: What Makes Them Work?

Cited by 46 publications

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Authorship in paediatric research conducted in low‐ and middle‐income countries: parity or parasitism?

Authorship in paediatric research conducted in low‐ and middle‐income countries: parity or parasitism?

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Status of global health fellowship training in the United States and Canada

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