Luchuo Engelbert Bain, Senior Implementation Research Scientist and Deputy Director of MSc in Global Women’s Health at Nuffield Dept of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Helicopter research is often discussed as a practice where researchers from wealthier countries conduct studies in lower-income countries with little involvement of local researchers or affected communities.
However, this extractive model also occurs within countries themselves – where well-resourced institutions conduct research in marginalized, underserved, or resource-limited communities with minimal local leadership, ownership, benefit-sharing, or long-term investment.
Charity begins at home – and so does equity. Inequitable South-South partnerships are real, yet we rarely speak about them with honesty. Change begins when we start asking difficult questions, confronting local power imbalances, and understanding that meaningful reform must happen from the inside out, not only from North to South.
The commentary powerfully reminds us that inequitable research partnerships are not only international problems; they can also be deeply local and institutional.”
Title: Ending “domestic helicopter research”
Authors: W. Marcus Lambert, Marlene Camacho-Rivera, Carla Boutin-Foster, Moro Salifu, Wayne J. Riley
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