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Why partnership is a design problem

Global health research is almost always collaborative, and the field's lineage runs back through international health and tropical medicine to colonial medicine. It still shows in the numbers: less than one percent of biomedical research funding goes directly to scientists in low-income countries, and authors from the Global North are over-represented in publications. Many collaborations remain an unequal venture rather than a true partnership. We don't have to wait for institutions to reform before changing how we build our own teams.

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