title: Developing collaborative approaches to international research: Perspectives of new global health researchers.
abstract: Within a global context of growing health inequities, the fostering of partnerships and collaborative research have been promoted as playing a critical role in tackling health inequities and health system problems worldwide. Since 2004, the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR) has facilitated annual Summer Institutes for new global health researchers aimed at strengthening global health research competencies and partnerships among participants. We sought to explore CCGHR Summer Institute alumni perspectives on the Summer Institute experience, particularly on the individual research pairings of Canadian and low- and middle-income countries researchers that have characterised the program. The results reveal that the Summer Institute offered an enriching learning opportunity for participants and worked to further their collaborative projects through providing dedicated one-on-one time with their international research partner, feedback from colleagues from around the world and mentorship by more senior researchers. Positive individual relationships among researchers, as well as the existence of institutional collaborations, employer and funding support, and agendas of local and national politicians were factors that have influenced the ongoing collaboration of partners. There is a need to more fully examine the interplay between individual and institutional-level collaborations, as well as their social and political contexts.
authors: a Social Aetiology of Mental Illness Program , Centre for Addiction and Mental Health , Toronto , ON , Canada.|b Global Health Program, Department of Family and Community Medicine , University of Toronto , Toronto , ON , Canada.
authors: Paula
authors: P
authors: Godoy-Ruiz
authors: c Dalla Lana School of Public Health , University of Toronto , Toronto , ON , Canada.
authors: Donald C
authors: DC
authors: Cole
authors: d Centre for Global Child Health , The Hospital for Sick Children , Toronto , ON , Canada.
authors: Lindsey
authors: L
authors: Lenters
authors: a Social Aetiology of Mental Illness Program , Centre for Addiction and Mental Health , Toronto , ON , Canada.|e Department of Psychiatry , University of Toronto , Toronto , ON , Canada.|f Wellesley Institute , Toronto , ON , Canada.
authors: Kwame
authors: K
authors: McKenzie
keywords: developing countries; global health; international cooperation; partnerships; research training
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