Title
Challenges and strategies for biomedical researchers returning to low- And middle-income countries after training
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Abstract
The brain drain of professionals from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to developed countries is well documented and partially due to the challenges faced by biomedical researchers to establish themselves back at home, after training abroad. These challenges may result in the loss of highly trained individuals from LMICs and reduce the availability of local expertise to develop/inform best practices in health care and to direct locally relevant research. The path of training of LMIC researchers in high-income countries is well documented. However, strategies for a successful reintegration of biomedical researchers back to their home research institutions in LMICs are less clear. We report observations of workshops addressing repatriation needs of researchers returning to their home countries after training abroad during the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 2017 and 2018 annual meetings. Strategies proposed include maintaining connections with the home research institution, ideally through collaborations, planning 18 months ahead before returning with grants applications submitted, and engaging in networking throughout the training period. In addition to presenting our observations, we hope to build a network to facilitate this process, compile resources, and identify expertise within the ASTMH to develop robust strategies to allow young biomedical researchers to flourish in LMICs.
Start page
494
End page
496
Volume
102
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otras ciencias médicas
Otras humanidades
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85081946102
PubMed ID
Source
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
ISSN of the container
00029637
Sponsor(s)
Financial support: L. M. G. acknowledges support from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (K24 AI110732). A. G. L. is sponsored by the training grant D43 TW007393 awarded by the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. A. A. reports grants from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH), the EMRO/TDR (ID no. SGS 18-87), and the Wellcome Trust Masters Fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine (Grant no: 200068/Z/15/Z), outside the submitted work.
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