The challenges of defining global health research

Published on January 6, 2022

Achieving equity in health for all should be the driving force of global health research and education, wherever in the world that may be, nationally or transnationally.The word ‘global’ itself in ‘global health research’ may be redundant already, given the risk of equating global health problems to transnational health problems. Perhaps 'global health research' should simply be called 'health equity research'. BMJ Global Health

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