Building Research Where Responses are Needed
Recommendations for action
- Build sustained collaborative partnerships
- Invest in people (Fellows coming; Scholars going)
- Engage the best minds across disciplines
- Foster networks to sustain collaborations/excellence
- Publicize the omportance of global health in local communities
- Foster a network of Trans-University Centers for Global Health by promoting scholars, fellows and curriculum
Elements of success
- Critical mass (fellows seeing what others in similar situations accomplish and what it takes to build research programs back home)
- Basic excellence/models/tools (molecular, computing, informatics, communications)
- Learning to present/write/critique
- Learning to mentor
- Personal friendship/respect (among co-equals)
Measures of success
- Publications (which build recognition, excellence, support and influence policy)
- Institutional commitment (deriving from visionary leaders committed to good science)
- Mutually beneficial collaborations
- Sustained impact (from people and collaborations)
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