Partnering with local scientists (for bioresearch) should be mandatory

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Nature Medicine
January 2014, Volume 20 No 1 pp1-103
http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v20/n1/index.htm

Opinion
Partnering with local scientists should be mandatory – p12
Miriam Shuchman, Dawit Wondimagegn, Clare Pain & Atalay Alem
doi:10.1038/nm0114-12

The problem of inequity in international research is perpetuated by policies that enable scientists to conduct research in lower-resourced areas of the world without partnering with local researchers. The World Health Organization (WHO) needs to lead in solving this problem by working with research institutions, journal editors and funding agencies to document the degree of inequity and to impose penalties for failures to collaborate.