Power, potential, and pitfalls in global health academic partnerships: review and reflections on an approach in Nepal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Global health academic partnerships are centered around a core tension: they often mirror or reproduce the very cross-national inequities they seek to alleviate. On the one hand, they risk worsening power dynamics that perpetuate health disparities; on the other, they form an essential response to the need for healthcare resources to reach marginalized populations across the globe.

Objectives

This study characterizes the broader landscape of global health academic partnerships, including challenges to developing ethical, equitable, and sustainable models. It then lays out guiding principles of the specific partnership approach, and considers how lessons learned might be applied in other resource-limited settings.

Methods

The experience of a partnership betw

SUBMITTER: Citrin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5645653 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature