Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
International Research Center of Excellence, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria.
Ann Glob Health. 2021 Sep 9;87(1):90. doi: 10.5334/aogh.3440. eCollection 2021.
Sustainable and equitable partnerships and collaborations between the Global North and Global South (as well as within the Global South) have been aspirations (if seldom achieved) of the "global health" endeavor over the past couple of decades. The COVID-19 pandemic led to global lockdowns that disrupted international travel and severely challenged these partnerships, providing a critical space for self-reflection on global health as a discipline. One major global north-south partnership is that between the African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth) and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). This article reports on a recent Satellite meeting of the AFREhealth-CUGH Working Group (ACWG) at the CUGH 2021 virtual conference in March 2021 that provided insights on North-South and South-South global health partnerships, against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors describe challenges and opportunities for research and education in these partnerships (as discussed at this ACWG Satellite meeting), and implications for the field of global health going forward as we emerge from the pandemic.
在过去的几十年里，全球北方和南方（以及南方内部）之间的可持续和公平的伙伴关系和合作一直是“全球健康”努力的愿望（尽管很少实现）。COVID-19 大流行导致全球封锁，扰乱了国际旅行，并严重挑战了这些伙伴关系，为全球健康作为一门学科进行自我反思提供了一个关键空间。一个主要的全球北方-南方伙伴关系是非洲健康研究和教育论坛（AFREhealth）与全球健康大学联盟（CUGH）之间的伙伴关系。本文报道了 2021 年 3 月 CUGH 2021 虚拟会议期间举行的 AFREhealth-CUGH 工作组（ACWG）最近的一次卫星会议，该会议提供了在 COVID-19 大流行背景下有关南北和南南全球卫生伙伴关系的见解。作者描述了这些伙伴关系中研究和教育的挑战和机遇（如在本次 ACWG 卫星会议上讨论的那样），以及我们从大流行中走出来后对全球健康领域的影响。
