TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards sustainable partnerships in global health
T2 - The case of the CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases in Peru
AU - Miranda, J. Jaime
AU - Bernabé-Ortiz, Antonio
AU - Diez-Canseco, Francisco
AU - Málaga, Germán
AU - Cárdenas, María K.
AU - Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M.
AU - Lazo-Porras, María
AU - Moscoso-Porras, Miguel
AU - Pesantes, M. Amalia
AU - Ponce, Vilarmina
AU - Araya, Ricardo
AU - Beran, David
AU - Busse, Peter
AU - Boggio, Oscar
AU - Checkley, William
AU - García, Patricia J.
AU - Huicho, Luis
AU - León-Velarde, Fabiola
AU - Lescano, Andrés G.
AU - Mohr, David C.
AU - Pan, William
AU - Peiris, David
AU - Perel, Pablo
AU - Rabadán-Diehl, Cristina
AU - Rivera-Chira, Maria
AU - Sacksteder, Katherine
AU - Smeeth, Liam
AU - Trujillo, Antonio J.
AU - Wells, Jonathan C.K.
AU - Yan, Lijing L.
AU - García, Héctor H.
AU - Gilman, Robert H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Author(s).
PY - 2016/6/2
Y1 - 2016/6/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Capacity building
KW - Low- and middle-income countries
KW - Partnerships
KW - Team management
KW - Training
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84971570101&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/s12992-016-0170-z
DO - 10.1186/s12992-016-0170-z
M3 - Artículo de revisión
C2 - 27255370
AN - SCOPUS:84971570101
SN - 1744-8603
VL - 12
JO - Globalization and Health
JF - Globalization and Health
IS - 1
M1 - 29
ER -
