Building global health research capacity to address research imperatives following the COVID-19 pandemic

• Published in: PLoS medicine Vol. 18; no. 8; p. e1003753
• Main Authors: Kilmarx, Peter H, Glass, Roger I
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 31.08.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Biology and Life Sciences; Climate change; Collaboration; Control; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 vaccines; Diagnostic tests; Disease transmission; Earth Sciences; Ebola virus; Epidemics; Forecasts and trends; Low income groups; Management; Medical research; Medicine and Health Sciences; Medicine, Experimental; Meetings; Outdoor air quality; Pandemics; People and Places; Public health; R&D; Research & development; Risk factors; Science Policy; Scientists; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Social aspects; Social Sciences; United States; World health; United States; Africa
• ISSN: 1549-1676; 1549-1277; 1549-1676
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003753

[...]authors affiliated with a Chinese institution published 8,921 articles on COVID-19 since the current outbreak was recognized, with remarkable progress in developing medical countermeasures. [...]how best can public health interventions and medical countermeasures be delivered to reduce poor outcomes, especially in racial/ethnic minority and other vulnerable populations? [...]implementation research on promoting the uptake of evidence-based interventions and policies into routine healthcare and public health settings is needed across each of these fields of health research to address persistent gaps between the promise of proven effective innovations and their successful implementation, especially in underserved and marginalized populations that have been more severely impacted by COVID-19 [12]. [...]COVID-19 is likely to recalibrate perspectives of levels of expertise in north–south relationships among higher- and lower-income countries.