多学科新研究者在应对全球健康重大挑战方面面临的挑战。

Challenges faced by multidisplinary new investigators on addressing grand challenges in global health.

机构信息

Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

出版信息

Global Health. 2014 Apr 15;10:27. doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-10-27.

DOI:10.1186/1744-8603-10-27

PMID:24735677

原文链接:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4036609/

Abstract

BACKGROUND

The grand challenges approach aims to spark innovative and transformative strategies to overcome barriers to significant global health issues. Grand Challenges Canada endorses an 'Integrated Innovation™' approach that focuses on the intersection of scientific/technological, social and business innovation. In this article we explore themes emerging from a dialogue between the authors, who are multidisciplinary recipients of the 'Rising Stars in Global Health' award from Grand Challenges Canada, regarding benefits of engaging in integrated innovation research, and recommendations for how this approach may develop in the future.

DISCUSSION

Our dialogue followed a semi-structured interview format that addressed three topics: 1) reflections on applying an Integrated Innovation™ approach for global health; 2) thoughts on participation in the Grand Challenges 2012 meeting; and 3) authors' visions of Grand Challenges Canada and the Grand Challenge movement towards 2020. The dialogue was transcribed verbatim and we used thematic analysis techniques to identify, analyze and report themes in the data. Benefits of working using the Grand Challenges approach centered on two themes: a) the potential for scientific breakthrough and b) building interdisciplinary collaborations and a community of scholars. Challenges and opportunities for Grand Challenges in moving forward included: a) capacity building, particularly regarding Integrated Innovation™ and scale-up planning; b) interdisciplinary and international mentorship for new investigators; and c) potential for future commercialization.

CONCLUSIONS

Our discussion highlighted that Integrated Innovation™ offers the opportunity to develop new theories, methods and approaches to global health while simultaneously fostering a collaborative spirit grounded in international, interdisciplinary collaborations. However, the arguable over-emphasis on corporatization poses a major challenge for new investigators. We propose a more balanced way forward that can harness technology to foster mentorship across time and space to support the development of such skills and ideas among new investigators.

摘要

背景

大挑战方法旨在激发创新和变革策略，以克服重大全球健康问题的障碍。加拿大大挑战支持“综合创新™”方法，专注于科学/技术、社会和商业创新的交叉点。在本文中，我们探讨了作者之间对话中出现的主题，作者是加拿大大挑战“全球健康新星”奖的多学科获得者，内容涉及参与综合创新研究的好处，以及对未来如何发展这种方法的建议。

讨论

我们的对话遵循半结构化访谈格式，涉及三个主题：1）对应用综合创新方法进行全球健康的思考；2）对参加 2012 年大挑战会议的想法；3）作者对加拿大大挑战和大挑战运动到 2020 年的愿景。对话是逐字记录的，我们使用主题分析技术来识别、分析和报告数据中的主题。使用大挑战方法工作的好处集中在两个主题上：a）科学突破的潜力和 b）建立跨学科合作和学者社区。大挑战向前推进的挑战和机遇包括：a）能力建设，特别是关于综合创新和扩大规划；b）新调查员的跨学科和国际指导；c）未来商业化的潜力。