K Bodinayake Champica, De S Nagahawatte Ajith, de Silva Vijitha, Ariyananda P L, Perera Bilesha, Kurukulasooriya Ruvini, Premamali M H Madureka, W Woods Christopher, Tillekeratne L Gayani, Østbye Truls
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, Galle, Sri Lanka.
Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Glob Health Action. 2025 Dec;18(1):2543603. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2025.2543603. Epub 2025 Aug 21.
The role of institutional partnerships is increasingly recognized as a means of advancing our collective efficacy in improving public health. Shared challenges related to infectious and chronic diseases, as well as social determinants of health including environmental stressors, have led to a growth in academic global health collaborations. Triggered by the 2004 tsunami, the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, and Duke University, USA, established an educational and research collaboration that has been sustained and broadened over two decades. The initiation and development of the collaboration, as well as its educational and research components, are described in this manuscript. We discuss lessons learned that may be of interest to other emerging partnerships: the keys to the collaboration's success, challenges and barriers faced, as well as plans to sustain and further grow an equitable, academically rigorous, and impactful global health partnership.
机构伙伴关系的作用日益被视为提高我们在改善公众健康方面集体效能的一种手段。与传染病和慢性病相关的共同挑战，以及包括环境压力源在内的健康社会决定因素，促使学术性全球健康合作不断增加。受2004年海啸的触发，斯里兰卡的鲁胡纳大学和美国的杜克大学建立了教育和研究合作关系，该合作关系在二十多年里得以持续并不断扩大。本文描述了该合作关系的启动与发展，以及其教育和研究组成部分。我们讨论了其他新兴伙伴关系可能感兴趣的经验教训：合作成功的关键、面临的挑战和障碍，以及维持并进一步发展一个公平、学术严谨且有影响力的全球健康伙伴关系的计划。
