Ethics in collaborative global health research networks

Imperialism, research ethics and global health.

Ethics in global health research: the need for balance

Lauren C Ng, Charlotte Hanlon, Getnet Yimer, David C Henderson, and Abebaw Fekadu Chester M Pierce MD Division of Global Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA (LCN, DCH); Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (LCN, DCH); Department of Psychiatry (CH, AF) and Department of Pharmacology and Biochemistry (GY), School of Medicine, College of H...

Polycentrism in Global Health Governance Scholarship; Comment on “Four Challenges That Global Health Networks Face”

Drawing on an in-depth analysis of eight global health networks, a recent essay in this journal argued that global health networks face four challenges to their effectiveness: problem definition, positioning, coalition-building, and governance. While sharing the argument of the essay concerned, in this commentary, we argue that these analytical concepts can be used to explicate a concept that h...

Four Challenges That Global Health Networks Face

Global health networks, webs of individuals and organizations with a shared concern for a particular condition, have proliferated over the past quarter century. They differ in their effectiveness, a factor that may help explain why resource allocations vary across health conditions and do not correspond closely with disease burden. Drawing on findings from recently concluded studies of eight gl...

Beyond procedural ethics: Foregrounding questions of justice in global health research ethics training for students

Interest in global health is growing among students across many disciplines and fields of study. In response, an increasing number of academic programmes integrate and promote opportunities for international research, service or clinical placements. These activities raise a range of ethical issues and are associated with important training needs for those who participate. In this paper, we focu...