Towards sustainable partnerships in global health: the case of the CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases in Peru
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Abstract
Human capital requires opportunities to develop and capacity to overcome challenges, together with an enabling
environment that fosters critical and disruptive innovation. Exploring such features is necessary to establish the
foundation of solid long-term partnerships. In this paper we describe the experience of the CRONICAS Centre of
Excellence in Chronic Diseases, based at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, as a case study for
fostering meaningful and sustainable partnerships for international collaborative research. The CRONICAS Centre of
Excellence in Chronic Diseases was established in 2009 with the following Mission: “We support the development
of young researchers and collaboration with national and international institutions. Our motivation is to improve
population’s health through high quality research.” The Centre’s identity is embedded in its core values —
generosity, innovation, integrity, and quality— and its trajectory is a result of various interactions between multiple
individuals, collaborators, teams, and institutions, which together with the challenges confronted, enables us to
make an objective assessment of the partnership we would like to pursue, nurture and support. We do not intend
to provide a single example of a successful partnership, but in contrast, to highlight what can be translated into
opportunities to be faced by research groups based in low- and middle-income countries, and how these
encounters can provide a strong platform for fruitful and sustainable partnerships. In defiant contexts, partnerships
require to be nurtured and sustained. Acknowledging that all partnerships are not and should not be the same, we
also need to learn from the evolution of such relationships, its key successes, hurdles and failures to contribute to
the promotion of a culture of global solidarity where mutual goals, mutual gains, as well as mutual responsibilities
are the norm. In so doing, we will all contribute to instil a new culture where expectations, roles and interactions
among individuals and their teams are horizontal, the true nature of partnerships.
environment that fosters critical and disruptive innovation. Exploring such features is necessary to establish the
foundation of solid long-term partnerships. In this paper we describe the experience of the CRONICAS Centre of
Excellence in Chronic Diseases, based at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, as a case study for
fostering meaningful and sustainable partnerships for international collaborative research. The CRONICAS Centre of
Excellence in Chronic Diseases was established in 2009 with the following Mission: “We support the development
of young researchers and collaboration with national and international institutions. Our motivation is to improve
population’s health through high quality research.” The Centre’s identity is embedded in its core values —
generosity, innovation, integrity, and quality— and its trajectory is a result of various interactions between multiple
individuals, collaborators, teams, and institutions, which together with the challenges confronted, enables us to
make an objective assessment of the partnership we would like to pursue, nurture and support. We do not intend
to provide a single example of a successful partnership, but in contrast, to highlight what can be translated into
opportunities to be faced by research groups based in low- and middle-income countries, and how these
encounters can provide a strong platform for fruitful and sustainable partnerships. In defiant contexts, partnerships
require to be nurtured and sustained. Acknowledging that all partnerships are not and should not be the same, we
also need to learn from the evolution of such relationships, its key successes, hurdles and failures to contribute to
the promotion of a culture of global solidarity where mutual goals, mutual gains, as well as mutual responsibilities
are the norm. In so doing, we will all contribute to instil a new culture where expectations, roles and interactions
among individuals and their teams are horizontal, the true nature of partnerships.
Date Issued
2016-06-02
Date Acceptance
2016-05-18
Citation
Globalization and Health, 2016, 12
ISSN
1744-8603
Publisher
BioMed Central
Journal / Book Title
Globalization and Health
Volume
12
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Partnerships
Low- and middle-income countries
Team management
Capacity building
Training
EXCESSIVE ERYTHROCYTOSIS
HIGH-ALTITUDE
BLOOD-PRESSURE
EARLY GROWTH
CHILDREN
POPULATION
PERUVIANS
EDUCATION
CAPACITY
PROGRAMS
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
29