Power, potential, and pitfalls in global health academic partnerships: review and reflections on an approach in Nepal

• Main Authors: David Citrin (Author), Stephen Mehanni (Author), Bibhav Acharya (Author), Lena Wong (Author), Isha Nirola (Author), Rekha Sherchan (Author), Bikash Gauchan (Author), Khem Bahadur Karki (Author), Dipendra Raman Singh (Author), Sriram Shamasunder (Author), Phuoc Le (Author), Dan Schwarz (Author), Ryan Schwarz (Author), Binod Dangal (Author), Santosh Kumar Dhungana (Author), Sheela Maru (Author), Ramesh Mahar (Author), Poshan Thapa (Author), Anant Raut (Author), Mukesh Adhikari (Author), Indira Basnett (Author), Shankar Prasad Kaluanee (Author), Grace Deukmedjian (Author), Scott Halliday (Author), Duncan Maru (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Global health academic partnerships are centered around a core tension: they often mirror or reproduce the very cross-national inequities they seek to alleviate. On the one hand, they risk worsening power dynamics that perpetuate health disparities; on the other, they form an essential r...