Improving Pediatric Academic Global Health Collaborative Research and Agenda Setting: A Mixed-Methods Study.

ABSTRACT: Academic global health collaborations have the potential to improve joint understanding of health issues in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Our objective was to elucidate perceptions of benefits and challenges of academic global health collaborations as well as areas for improving collaborative research conducted in LMICs. This cross-sectional, mixed-methods study surveyed investigators' perceptions of benefits and challenges of pediatric academic global health collaborations. Authors of articles from four pediatric journals reporting pediatric research conducted in LMICs published between 2006 and 2015 were surveyed. Responses of LMIC investigators were compared with those of investigators in high-income countries (HICs). Responses to open-ended questions were analyzed using a c

SUBMITTER: Rees CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7056414 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature