Building research capacity in Africa: equity and global health collaborations

Kathryn M Chu; Sudha Jayaraman; Patrick Kyamanywa; Georges Ntakiyiruta

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001612

Building research capacity in Africa: equity and global health collaborations

PLoS Med. 2014 Mar 11;11(3):e1001612. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001612. eCollection 2014 Mar.

Authors

Kathryn M Chu¹, Sudha Jayaraman², Patrick Kyamanywa³, Georges Ntakiyiruta³

Affiliations

¹ Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
² Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
³ University of Rwanda, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Butare, Rwanda.

Abstract

Kathryn Chu and colleagues discuss the impact of high-income country investigators conducting research in low- and middle-income countries and explore lessons from the effective and equitable relationships that exist.

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MeSH terms

Africa
Capacity Building* / organization & administration
Cooperative Behavior*
Global Health*
Humans

Grants and funding

No specific funding was received to write this article.