TY - JOUR
T1 - Mentorship and ethics in global health
T2 - Fostering scientific integrity and responsible conduct of research
AU - Bukusi, Elizabeth A.
AU - Manabe, Yukari C.
AU - Zunt, Joseph R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Addressing ethical issues through mentorship is key to encouraging scientific integrity and increasing research capacity. Across the global health arena, mentorship requires helping mentees understand and negotiate the regulatory aspects of research—which can substantially differ even between countries with similar resources. Mentorship support spans across the research framework from obtaining ethical approval and ensuring scientific integrity, to determining authorship and disseminating study results—providing multiple opportunities to model ethical behavior for mentees. The power imbalances between the global north and south in accessing funding resources produce further challenges in setting the research agenda and for ensuring equity in the dissemination of research findings. Gender further complicates the aspiration for equity; the proportion of women in high administrative or research positions remains low. This study explores four specific mentoring case scenarios commonly encountered in the global health research field in low- and middle-income institutions.
AB - Addressing ethical issues through mentorship is key to encouraging scientific integrity and increasing research capacity. Across the global health arena, mentorship requires helping mentees understand and negotiate the regulatory aspects of research—which can substantially differ even between countries with similar resources. Mentorship support spans across the research framework from obtaining ethical approval and ensuring scientific integrity, to determining authorship and disseminating study results—providing multiple opportunities to model ethical behavior for mentees. The power imbalances between the global north and south in accessing funding resources produce further challenges in setting the research agenda and for ensuring equity in the dissemination of research findings. Gender further complicates the aspiration for equity; the proportion of women in high administrative or research positions remains low. This study explores four specific mentoring case scenarios commonly encountered in the global health research field in low- and middle-income institutions.
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U2 - 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0562
DO - 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0562
M3 - Article
C2 - 30430980
AN - SCOPUS:85059795484
SN - 0002-9637
VL - 100
SP - 42
EP - 47
JO - American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
JF - American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
ER -