In partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Fogarty International Center organized and supported a satellite session at
AIDS 2024, the 25th International AIDS Conference. In addition to researchers with experience in Global Health Reciprocal Innovation, the session included speakers from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the NIH Office of AIDS Research, and the Office of Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Session Information
Session title:
Global health reciprocal innovation (GHRI): optimizing the global impact of health interventions through novel research partnerships and knowledge exchange
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Date: Thursday, July 25, 2024
Time: 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Location: Munich, Germany
Speakers: James Dearing, Michigan State University (USA); Paul Gaist, NIH Office of AIDS Research (USA); Kaye Hayes, Health and Human Services (USA); Jepchirchir Kiplagat, College of Health Sciences, (Kenya); Jenny Ledikwe, HRSA (USA); Albert Liu, San Francisco Department of Public Health (USA); Chris Longenecker, University of Washington (USA); Megan Song McHenry (Indiana University (USA); Martin Muddu, Makerere University School of Medicine (Uganda); Alpa Patel-Larson, HRSA (USA); Dianne Rausch, NIMH (USA); Marie Consolatrice Sage Ishimwe, Institute of Global Health Equity Research (Rwanda); Janet Turan, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health (USA); and Tanchica West, HRSA (USA)
Session description:
The session will introduce the concept of global health reciprocal innovation (GHRI); explore barriers, facilitators, and lessons learned for implementing a GHRI approach through innovative case examples; highlight lessons from a GHRI grant program; and conclude with concrete strategies for operationalizing GHRI.
This session seeks to bridge the gap between GHRI theory and practice by providing case examples of the use of GHRI in the global HIV/AIDS response and in global health more broadly and by identifying barriers, facilitators, and lessons learned to enhance the use of this approach for research. It builds upon a
2022 NIH-sponsored virtual GHRI workshop and a subsequent
BMJ Global Health supplement entitled, “Reciprocal Innovation in Global Health Research."
More about global health reciprocal innovation (GHRI)
“Reciprocal Innovation is the bi-directional and iterative exchange of a technology, methodology, or process between at least two countries, one lower- or middle-income country and one high-income country, to address a common health challenge and provide mutual benefit to both sides."—
Indiana University Center for Global Health
Updated October 4, 2024