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Whose vision gets funded

A shared vision is what a team coalesces around, and people who can articulate it and see where they fit do better work. In global health the vision usually belongs to one lead scientist, who finds a funding opportunity, writes a short concept note, and recruits collaborators around it. Whose vision becomes reality is therefore mostly a question of whose vision gets funded, and funding favors scholars from the Global North. Collaborations that last let the next vision come from anyone on the team.

Also covered: specific aims document · Tuckman's stages of group development · collaboration agreement · identity-based trust · shared vocabulary