Rethinking research processes to strengthen co-production in low and middle income countries

David Beran; Maria Amalia Pesantes; Maria Claudia Berghusen; Branwen J Hennig; Johanna Jacobi; Maria Lazo-Porras; Aymara Llanque; Enrichetta Placella; Carmenza Robledo-Abad; Marta Tufet Bayona; J Jaime Miranda

doi:10.1136/bmj.m4785

Rethinking research processes to strengthen co-production in low and middle income countries

BMJ. 2021 Feb 15:372:m4785. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m4785.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, University of Geneva and Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
² CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
³ Lima, Peru.
⁴ Wellcome Trust, London, UK.
⁵ Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland.
⁶ Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland.
⁷ University of Bern Switzerland Centre for Development and Environment, La Paz, Bolivia.
⁸ Global Health Program, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Bern, Switzerland.
⁹ Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁰ UK Collaborative on Development Research, London, UK.
¹¹ George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Abstract

Co-production needs to become an integral part of the training and funding of researchers to ensure research meets everyone’s needs, argue David Beran and colleagues

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / organization & administration*
Developing Countries*
Global Health*
Health Policy*
Humans
Intersectoral Collaboration*
Knowledge Discovery / methods*
Stakeholder Participation*