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Collaboration is key to strengthening surgical research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa

Year: 2016

Type: editorial

Abstract: The paucity of research in areas of greatest clinical need must be addressed urgently. We propose a model of collaboration in an era of information systems and emerging mobile health technology that has had significant success across the UK and has shown early encouraging results in South Africa (SA). We foresee that recent examples of surgical research collaboratives in SA will continue to promote regional, national and international 'hub-and-spoke' models and ultimately increase the South-South collaboration that is urgently needed to diffuse the skills and knowledge required to address the unmet surgical need in sub-Saharan Africa.

Source: South African Medical Journal

DOI: 10.7196/samj.2016.v106i2.10182

Authors: Richard Trafford Spence, Eugenio Panieri, Sarah L Rayne, Ewen Munro Harrison, Aneel Amir Bhangu, James Edward Fitzgerald

Institutions: University of Cape Town, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, University of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University of Birmingham, The Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Global Health and Surgery

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Partnerships for the goals, Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $311

OpenAlex ID: W2267136027

Cites: 12

Cited by: 11

Related to: 10