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African Data. But Whose Research Is It?
African data. African communities. But whose name is on the paper?
A study in BMJ Global Health analysed 7,100 health research papers about sub-Saharan Africa and found that when foreign institutions were involved, African researchers were consistently pushed out of first and senior authorship positions.
The data was collected here. The communities are here. The disease burden is here.
But the credit and the career advancement that comes with it often isn’t.
So here’s the question: Who really owns African health data and does it actually matter who gets the credit?
We want to hear from researchers who’ve lived this on both sides.
Source: Hedt-Gauthier et al., BMJ Global Health (2019)
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