Pathfinder studies: a novel tool for process mapping data-driven health research to build global research capacity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is vast global inequality regarding where health research happens, who leads the research, and who benefits from the evidence. Globally, wealthier nations drive and influence data-driven research and how it is structured institutionally. Key barriers to high-quality research being undertaken in and led by low-resource settings are well reported. These barriers persist, thereby perpetuating a lack of locally generated data and/or evidence to tackle diseases that bring the greatest burden. Our aim was to design a tool to capture best practices in the production of data-driven health research, to advance both quality and quantity of research being conducted where it is needed most.

Methods

An expert group of senior global health researchers from Asia, Africa, E

SUBMITTER: Uppal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12329893 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature