Global health research partnerships in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Global health research partnerships in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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DOI：
10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.08.015
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发表时间：
2020-11-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Owusu-Daaku, Frances
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作者：
Addo-Atuah, Joyce;Senhaji-Tomza, Batoul;Owusu-Daaku, Frances
截至2020年8月15日，冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行已在全球210个国家和地区夺去近756，000人的生命。这场公共卫生危机凸显了全球卫生研究伙伴关系和合作的重要性，以开发和评估必要的卫生技术，协助遏制COVID-19、其他疾病和超越国界的健康相关问题。联合国成员国于2015年9月通过的17个可持续发展目标（SDG）为包括全球健康研究在内的全球发展努力提供了框架。可持续发展目标3旨在促进全世界各年龄段人口的健康和福祉，突出了需要特别关注的疾病领域，这些领域可以在特定的全球卫生研究计划中进行调整，以满足当地的卫生需求。SDG 17促进高收入国家（HIC）和中低收入国家（LMIC）之间的伙伴关系，以实现可持续和公平的全球发展。然而，鉴于高收入国家和低收入国家的研究人员在财政和整体研究能力方面存在巨大差距，以及低收入国家社区在作为研究地点时存在更大的脆弱性，因此需要在可持续发展目标的背景下关注这种全球卫生研究伙伴关系的性质。这是为了确保它们是有意义和互利的伙伴关系，解决当地的健康问题，并促进对所涉社区的长期价值。因此，本评论的目的是通过背景的方式简要概述可持续发展目标;探索当HIC的研究人员在LMIC寻求研究机会时，发挥作用的权力差异;研究健康的社会决定因素和低收入中等收入国家人口承受的全球疾病的不成比例的负担，以确定他们的脆弱性;讨论全球研究伙伴关系;并试图说明为什么基于社区的参与性研究可能是可持续发展目标背景下全球卫生研究伙伴关系的首选类型。
This themed issue on global health research has come at an opportune time in the middle of the ongoing global public health crisis arising from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic which has claimed nearly 756,000 lives in 210 countries and territories around the world as of August 15, 2020. The public health crisis underscores the importance of global health research partnerships and collaborations to develop and evaluate the requisite health technologies to assist in containing COVID-19, other diseases, and health-related concerns that defy national borders. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the member countries of the United Nations in September 2015, provide a framework for global development efforts including global health research. SDG3, which promotes health and well-being for the world populations across the age spectrum, highlights disease areas for special focus which can be adapted in specific global health research programs to serve local health needs. SDG17 promotes partnerships between high income (HIC) and low and middle-income countries (LMIC) for sustainable and equitable global development. However, given the wide disparities in fiscal and overall capacity for research between researchers in HIC and their counterparts in LMIC as well as the greater vulnerabilities of the LMIC communities when serving as research locations, a spotlight on the nature of such global health research partnerships in the context of the SDGs is desirable. This is to ensure that they are meaningful and mutually-beneficial partnerships which address local health concerns and promote long-term value for the communities involved.The objective of this commentary is, therefore, to provide a brief overview of the SDGs by way of context; explore the power differences at play when researchers from HIC are seeking research opportunities in LMIC; examine the social determinants of health and the disproportionate burden of global diseases carried by populations in LMIC to establish their vulnerability; discuss global research partnerships; and attempt to make a case for why community-based participatory research may be the preferred type of global health research partnership in the context of the SDGs.