Global health research and education at medical faculties in Germany.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Universities undertake the majority of publicly funded research in Germany and hence bear a responsibility to contribute to global health efforts. So far, involvement and impact of German medical faculties in global health are unknown. Our aim was to systematically asses and evaluate German medical faculties' contribution to global health related research and education, as well as their policies and practices concerning open access publishing and equitable licensing.

Methods

We assessed the involvement in global health of all 36 publicly funded medical faculties in Germany during 2010-2014 in three areas: innovation, access and education, using the following indicators: research funding and publications focused on global health or poverty-related and neglected dis

SUBMITTER: Karduck L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7170220 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature