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Miranda JJ, Bernabé-Ortiz A, Diez-Canseco F, Málaga G, Cárdenas MK, Carrillo-Larco RM, Lazo-Porras M, Moscoso-Porras M, Pesantes MA, Ponce V, Araya R, Beran D, Busse P, Boggio O, Checkley W, García PJ, Huicho L, León-Velarde F, Lescano AG, Mohr DC, Pan W, Peiris D, Perel P, Rabadán-Diehl C, Rivera-Chira M, Sacksteder K, Smeeth L, Trujillo AJ, Wells JCK, Yan LL, García HH, Gilman RH. Towards sustainable partnerships in global health: the case of the CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases in Peru. Global Health 2016; 12:29. [PMID: 27255370 PMCID: PMC4890274 DOI: 10.1186/s12992-016-0170-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2015] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
Human capital requires opportunities to develop and capacity to overcome challenges, together with an enabling environment that fosters critical and disruptive innovation. Exploring such features is necessary to establish the foundation of solid long-term partnerships. In this paper we describe the experience of the CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, based at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, as a case study for fostering meaningful and sustainable partnerships for international collaborative research. The CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases was established in 2009 with the following Mission: "We support the development of young researchers and collaboration with national and international institutions. Our motivation is to improve population's health through high quality research." The Centre's identity is embedded in its core values - generosity, innovation, integrity, and quality- and its trajectory is a result of various interactions between multiple individuals, collaborators, teams, and institutions, which together with the challenges confronted, enables us to make an objective assessment of the partnership we would like to pursue, nurture and support. We do not intend to provide a single example of a successful partnership, but in contrast, to highlight what can be translated into opportunities to be faced by research groups based in low- and middle-income countries, and how these encounters can provide a strong platform for fruitful and sustainable partnerships. In defiant contexts, partnerships require to be nurtured and sustained. Acknowledging that all partnerships are not and should not be the same, we also need to learn from the evolution of such relationships, its key successes, hurdles and failures to contribute to the promotion of a culture of global solidarity where mutual goals, mutual gains, as well as mutual responsibilities are the norm. In so doing, we will all contribute to instil a new culture where expectations, roles and interactions among individuals and their teams are horizontal, the true nature of partnerships.
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Affiliation(s)
- J Jaime Miranda
- CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Armendáriz 497, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru.
- School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
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- CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Armendáriz 497, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru
- School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Armendáriz 497, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru
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- CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Armendáriz 497, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru
- School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
- Division of Internal Medicine, Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Armendáriz 497, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru
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- CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Armendáriz 497, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru
- School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Armendáriz 497, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru
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- CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Armendáriz 497, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru
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- CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Armendáriz 497, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru
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- CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Armendáriz 497, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru
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- Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
- University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Non-Communicable Diseases, Dirección General de Salud de las Personas, Ministerio de Salud, Lima, Peru
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
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- School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
- Department of Pediatrics, Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño, Lima, Peru
- School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
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- School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
- Department of Parasitology, and Public Health Training Program, USA Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Lima, Peru
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- Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Environmental Science and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- World Heart Federation, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Office of Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Global Health Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
- Center for Global Health - Tumbes, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Tumbes, Peru
- Cysticercosis Unit, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas, Lima, Peru
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Asociación Benéfica PRISMA, Lima, Peru
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Huamaní C, Romaní F, González-Alcaide G, Mejia MO, Ramos JM, Espinoza M, Cabezas C. South American collaboration in scientific publications on leishmaniasis: bibliometric analysis in SCOPUS (2000-2011). Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 2015; 56:381-90. [PMID: 25229217 PMCID: PMC4172108 DOI: 10.1590/s0036-46652014000500003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2013] [Accepted: 02/25/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVES Evaluate the production and the research collaborative network on Leishmaniasis in South America. METHODS A bibliometric research was carried out using SCOPUS database. The analysis unit was original research articles published from 2000 to 2011, that dealt with leishmaniasis and that included at least one South American author. The following items were obtained for each article: journal name, language, year of publication, number of authors, institutions, countries, and others variables. RESULTS 3,174 articles were published, 2,272 of them were original articles. 1,160 different institutional signatures, 58 different countries and 398 scientific journals were identified. Brazil was the country with more articles (60.7%) and Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) had 18% of Brazilian production, which is the South American nucleus of the major scientific network in Leishmaniasis. CONCLUSIONS South American scientific production on Leishmaniasis published in journals indexed in SCOPUS is focused on Brazilian research activity. It is necessary to strengthen the collaboration networks. The first step is to identify the institutions with higher production, in order to perform collaborative research according to the priorities of each country.
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- Facultad de Medicina Humana ?San Fernando?, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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