Equity in global health research: A proposal to adopt author reflexivity statements

Sepeedeh Saleh; Refiloe Masekela; Eva Heinz; Seye Abimbola; Equitable Authorship Consensus Statement Group; Ben Morton; Andre Vercueil; Lisa Reimer; Chisomo Kalinga; Maaike Seekles; Bruce Biccard; Jeremiah Chakaya; Angela Obasi; Ndekya Oriyo

doi:10.1371/journal.pgph.0000160

Equity in global health research: A proposal to adopt author reflexivity statements

PLOS Glob Public Health. 2022 Mar 30;2(3):e0000160. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000160. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
² Head of Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban, South Africa.
³ Departments of Clinical Sciences and of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁴ School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
⁵ King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
⁶ Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁷ Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
⁸ Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁹ Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁰ Global Respiratory Health, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Department of Medicine, Dermatology and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹² AXESS Clinic, Royal Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
¹³ National Institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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Grants and funding

This study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) through a grant awarded to MS, AO, and JC (16/136/35). We thank the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Lung Health and TB in Africa at LSTM - “IMPALA” for helping to make this work possible. In relation to IMPALA specifically: IMPALA was commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research (GHR) using UK aid from the UK Government. SS was supported by a Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellowship (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, block award 203919/Z/16/Z). EH is in receipt of a Wellcome Trust SEED award (217303/Z/19/Z) and BM has funding to support adoption of the Consensus statement on equitable partnership from the Association of Anaesthetists (IRC21R102).