Capacity building in collaborative research is essential

Risky business: Capacity-building in collaborative research

The concept of capacity-building, originating in studies of economic development, operates as a powerful metaphor in arguments promoting collaborative research in education. This chapter interrogates the concept of capacity-building in that context by exploring the apparent contradiction of seeking to promote collaborative research in an increasingly competitive research funding environment, an...

Capacity Building in Global Mental Health Research

Research-generated information about mental disorders is crucial in order to establish the health needs in a given setting, to propose culturally apt and cost-effective individual and collective interventions, to investigate their implementation, and to explore the obstacles that prevent recommended strategies from being implemented. Yet the capacity to undertake such research in low- and middl...

Building Research Capacity in Developing Nations

Environmental Health Perspectives • VOLUME 114 | NUMBER 10 | October 2006 A 603 The NIEHS Strategic Plan for 2006–2011, New Frontiers in Environmental Sciences and Human Health, lays out a vision for establishing a global effort in the environmental health sciences. A central component of that vision is the establishment of enhanced research capacity in developing nations and cooperation betwee...

Research Ethics Committees in Africa: Building Capacity

Solomon Benatar In response to the case study by Kass et al. on research ethics committees (RECs) in Africa [1], the following additional information is provided about capacity building for research ethics in South Africa. South Africa has two programs funded by the Fogarty International Center: the International Research Ethics Network for Southern Africa (IRENSA; see http:⁄⁄www.irensa. org) b...

Building capacity in applied health services research.