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ABSTRACT
Global Health is a young discipline with equity of health and services as its core value. The discipline has a tradition of close links between practice and research in line with the ‘Health for All’ declaration launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1978. The multitude of existential health crises facing mankind require a research agenda in line with Global Health Research core values and methods, such as transdisciplinary collaboration, long time series of population-based observations and multifaceted interventions. Knowledge gaps cover climate effects on health and mechanisms for global spread and control of antibiotic resistance across species. Such health threats are preferably studied at Health and Demographic Surveillance Sites, a scientific infrastructure for Global Health Research in Africa and Asia, that gains to expand and monitor climate parameters and include sites in the northern hemisphere. Global Health Scientists together with science societies can ensure long-term funding of a global network of population-based health-climate sites. Global Health Scientists and scientific journals should jointly provide data and evidence on global health to governance bodies on regional, national and global levels, in particular to WHO and United Nations in charge of the programme with Sustainable Development Goals.
Responsible Editor Stig Wall
Responsible Editor Stig Wall
Acknowledgments
Drs Lennart Freij and Katharina Schmidt-Mende have contributed with comments and facts.
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Author contributions
The editorial team has asked the author to contribute with a Commentary on the history and future of Global Health Research. The author is fully responsible for the structure and contents and has written the full text.
Ethics and consent
No human experiments requiring human ethics approvals and consent from either patients and volunteers are reported in this commentary. Not applicable for this Commentary.
Paper context
Global Health has emerged as a concept in recent decades, inspired by the World Health Organization (WHO) movement ‘Health for all’ in the 1970s. Still Global Health has colonial roots to be addressed. Global Health Research can be strengthened by bridging Research and Development, a paradigm for multilateral aid during the 90s. Present existential global crises require multifaceted and cross-disciplinary solutions based on Global Health Research approaches.