BMJ Global Health (Sep 2024)

Advancing collaborative research for health: why does collaboration matter?

  • Ludovic Reveiz,
  • Carla Saenz,
  • Maxwell J Smith,
  • Michelle M Haby,
  • Timothy M Krahn,
  • Sarah Carracedo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-014971
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 9

Abstract

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The calls for health research to be collaborative are ubiquitous—even as part of a recent World Health Assembly resolution on clinical trials—yet the arguments in support of collaborative research have been taken for granted and are absent in the literature. This article provides three arguments to justify why health research ought to be collaborative and discusses trade-offs to be considered among the ethical values guiding each argument.