Ethical failures in global health research: violations of Sustainable Development Goal 8, decent work for all

Bangura, I and Chakraborty, A and Garcia-Hernandez, A and Kaplan, L and Kuhnt, J and Muhumad, A A and Steinert, J I and Tellez, D (2022) Ethical failures in global health research: violations of Sustainable Development Goal 8, decent work for all. The Lancet Global Health, 10 (5). E619-E619. ISSN 2214-109X

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Abstract

International collaborations are indispensable in global health research, and have great potential to be harnessed in a beneficial and fruitful way. However, to date, such collaborations have all too often been characterised by iniquitous and exploitative dynamics that disempower actors from low-income and middle-income countries. Data collection is heavily reliant on the work of local interviewers, gatekeepers, and translators, because of their fluency in the local language and their natural access to and trust within target communities. Despite having such a crucial role in generating the data, local researchers are mostly positioned at the lowest hierarchical level of research teams and systematically excluded from important stages of the scientific process. In addition, these researchers are commonly employed on short-term contracts without adequate health and social insurance. Many research projects operate on short-lived and ad hoc organisational structures that inadequately address the institutional, political, and macroeconomic challenges in the target country. Collecting data in high-risk and deprived settings—alongside poor project-level support infrastructure—can have particularly detrimental effects on the mental health and physical wellbeing of local researchers.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Research Program : Innovation Systems for the Drylands (ISD)
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Uncontrolled Keywords:	global health research, ethical failures, Sustainable Development Goal 8
Subjects:	Others > Data & Analytics
Depositing User:	Mr Nagaraju T
Date Deposited:	07 Feb 2024 09:39
Last Modified:	07 Feb 2024 09:39
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12445
Official URL:	https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/...
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