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The Role of Solidarity in Research in Global Health Emergencies

Name / volume / issue

77230

Page number

4-6

Primary author

Katharine Wright & Julian Sheather

Tag(s): Journal article

Abstract

Pratt et al. highlight important ways in which solidarity between researchers and communities provides both an ethical underpinning, and an ethical goal, for community engagement in global health research. We suggest that for the same reasons, the aspects of solidarity identified in the target article are essential to an understanding of what constitutes ethical research during a global health emergency, such as the current COVID-19 outbreak.

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