Research Equity in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Rolvix Harlan Patterson; Mary Jue Xu; Samuel Okerosi; Mahmood F Bhutta; Carolina Der; Blake Alkire; Rose Njogu; Varun Vendra; Sharon Ovnat Tamir; Johannes J Fagan

doi:10.1177/2473974X211024145

Research Equity in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

OTO Open. 2021 Jun 18;5(2):2473974X211024145. doi: 10.1177/2473974X211024145. eCollection 2021 Apr-Jun.

Authors

Rolvix Harlan Patterson¹, Mary Jue Xu², Samuel Okerosi³, Mahmood F Bhutta^{4

5}, Carolina Der⁶, Blake Alkire^{7

8

9}, Rose Njogu¹⁰, Varun Vendra¹¹, Sharon Ovnat Tamir¹², Johannes J Fagan¹³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
² Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
³ Department of Otolaryngology, Machakos Level Five Hospital, Machakos, Kenya.
⁴ University Hospitals Sussex, Brighton, UK.
⁵ Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK.
⁶ School of Medicine, Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo; Otorhinolaryngology Department, Dr Luis Calvo Mackenna Children's Hospital, Santiago, Chile.
⁷ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁸ Center for Global Surgery Evaluation, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁹ Department of Global Health Equity, Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
¹⁰ SH:24 Sexual and Adolescent Reproductive Health, London, UK.
¹¹ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
¹² Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, Ben Gurion University, Ashdod, Israel.
¹³ Division of Otolaryngology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Abstract

Equitable research collaborations benefit the quality and relevance of global otolaryngology-head and neck surgery research. However, analyses of existing global health literature have shown disproportionate representation by foreign authors. To avert this inequity and improve global otolaryngology-head and neck surgery research, we propose a framework that emphasizes local representation and capacity building in research.

Keywords: global health; global surgery; research equity.