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Calls for inclusivity in global health research are intensifying. Awareness of the importance of creating more equitable and collaborative international partnerships is increasing. The decolonisation of global health research entails ensuring that diverse voices, especially from low and middle income countries, are shaping all stages of the process.
This new Inclusive internationalism: driving more equitable and collaborative partnerships collection of articles in The BMJ and BMJ Global Health highlights examples of such “inclusive internationalism”: successes and challenges in generating equitable and impactful innovation. It also looks to the future, proposing greater, more sustainable equity in research, with collaborative implementation.
The Collection considers elimination of visceral leishmaniasis, the strengthening of equitable research capacity, and the need for lived experience co-production and intersectional, gendered analysis for inclusive, useful infectious disease research.
Analysis
Visceral leishmaniasis elimination in South Asia: lessons learnt can inform disease elimination in East Africa
The Kala-azar Elimination Programme has shown that it is possible to eliminate visceral leishmaniasis from the world’s highest endemic region, South Asia. The experience should inform response to visceral leishmaniasis elsewhere as well as for other diseases targeted for elimination, write Piero Olliaro and colleagues
Strengthening equitable research capacity in response to infectious diseases of poverty
Equitable research capacity is fundamental to tackling global health challenges and reducing health inequity. Anna Thorson and colleagues emphasise the evolution from externally driven, high-income-centric models of research capacity strengthening toward inclusive, context sensitive approaches that prioritize local ownership, diversity, and sustainability
Commentary
Transforming infectious disease control through social innovation, community engagement and intersectional gender research
Community engagement and approaches that aim to change unequal power relations are essential for inclusive, relevant, and sustainable health interventions, write Meredith Labarda and colleagues
Opinion
TDR at 50: advancing a longstanding commitment to inclusion research
Fifty years after the formation of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, John Reeder, Garry Aslanyan, and Makiko Kitamura review their organisation’s progress on advancing inclusive internationalism in health research
This BMJ Collection was proposed by the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), an initiative of Unicef, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization. TDR provided funding for the collection, including open access fees. BMJ commissioned, peer reviewed, edited, and made the decisions to publish the articles. Jocalyn Clark and Richard Hurley were the lead editors for The BMJ and BMJ Global Health.
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