From: Promoting equitable global health research: a policy analysis of the Canadian funding landscape
CCGHR Principles for Global Health Research | Description | Potential applications in funding policy |
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Authentic partnering | Building equity and reciprocity considerations into research partnerships, including the ways in which research partnerships enable fair distribution of resources, power and benefits | • Attention to research teams’ partnership structures, distribution of resources, degree of participation and/or collaboration (e.g. through team composition, budget) • Requiring transparency in intention to adopt equitable, ethical partnering strategies • Setting expectations for GHR to recognise and mitigate power imbalances (e.g. between Canadian researchers and their LMIC partners) • Requiring the use of partnership assessment tools or process evaluation, including research on the use of these tools |
Inclusion | Intentionally providing people who have been historically marginalised opportunities to engage in research processes | • Promoting integrated knowledge translation or engaged study designs that include research users in identifying and defining research problems, setting priorities, articulating questions, conducting research and designing dissemination products • Setting budget guidelines for inclusion of trainees or mentees (e.g. emerging leaders), particularly from partner countries |
Shared benefits | Being attentive to and mitigating the potential for research to benefit the principal investigator more than the communities or partners with whom they are working | • Setting expectations about research outputs that include benefits beyond traditional academic outputs (i.e. publications) • Requiring documentation of how research teams are attempting to achieve reciprocity • Encouraging budget allocation that prioritises equitable resourcing for LMIC partners to benefit as trainees and/or attend conferences • Encouraging budget allocation to post-product/post-trial benefits for communities involved in randomised controlled trials • Assessing for equity intentions in access to evidence, including open access policies for publications and in data repositories |
Commitment to the future | Honouring global citizenship and humanity’s shared future in the world, including prioritising research that contributes to a better, more equitable world for future generations | • Examining how a particular project fits within a broader relationship or programme of research • Providing funding for multi-year projects • Inviting research specific to global sustainability and inherently global health issues such as climate change or globalisation • Assessing grants for alignment with human rights language and/or work • Encouraging budget allocated to trainees and mentorship • Funding multi-institution teams or networks • Investing in harmonisation efforts |
Responsiveness to causes of inequities | Recognising, examining and interrupting root causes of health inequities through research | • Ensuring reviewers are familiar with the evidence about root causes of health inequities • Assessing grants for efforts to recognise, examine and interrupt root causes of health inequities • Encouraging applied and/or interventional research that aims to recognise, examine or interrupt root causes of health inequities • Encouraging research on research to illuminate and interrupt inequitable research practices or study designs |
Humility | Positioning researchers in a position of learning, rather than knowing | • Encouraging adaptive, responsive or supportive steps for investing in research and/or knowledge translation (e.g. formative evaluations that open possibilities for adjusting plans) • Inviting integrated knowledge translation, action research, applied or engaged study designs |