Bioethics Recommendations to Increase Culturally Informed Global Health Survey Research

A Framework for Centering Community Engagement

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ID19459352
AutoresMadeleine J Getz (0000-0003-3003-727X, School of Human Evolution and Social Change Arizona State University Tempe USA, autor de correspondencia), Alicia M Delouize (0000-0002-9045-6428, Global Health Biomarker Laboratory, Department of Anthropology University of Oregon Eugene USA), Felicia C Madimenos (0000-0001-5442-232X, Department of Anthropology Queens College (CUNY) New Brunswick USA), G Uwizeye (0000-0002-3255-2155, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing Western University London Canada), Zaneta M Thayer (0000-0001-8028-942X, Department of Anthropology Dartmouth College Hanover USA), L J Mckerracher (0000-0002-9687-6896, Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, and Department of Public Health Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark), Alejandra Núñez‐de La Mora (0000-0002-1609-0771, Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas Universidad Veracruzana Xalapa Mexico), Jeffrey Snodgra (0000-0002-7021-777X, Global Health Biomarker Laboratory, Department of Anthropology University of Oregon Eugene USA)
Año2025
Volumen37
Número2
Páginase70011-e70011
Fecha de publicación2025-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Human Biology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1042-0533 • E-ISSN: 1520-6300
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ajhb.70011
PMID39962822
OpenAlexW4407717920
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas90

Global health projects—a source of inspiration and collaboration for applied human biology—benefit scholars, governments, NGOs, and aid organizations. While such research is intended to improve population health, direct benefits to individuals and communities are often excluded from published works and/or not considered in study designs and framing. This exclusion is increasingly recognized as a colonial legacy that hinders global health equity, particularly for Indigenous and other marginalized populations. Collaboration and community engagement are avenues for addressing these injustices, but they require planning, intention, and resources. Drawing on our collective experience and ongoing dialogues about community engagement in human biology, we propose six recommendations to increase equity in global health research. These include: (1) Incorporating trusted local specialists and stakeholders at all project levels; (2) disseminating health information to participants in strengths‐based and culturally meaningful ways and contributing to solutions wherever possible; (3) investing in local healthcare, research, and infrastructure; (4) making study results/data available to stakeholders; (5) working within data frameworks that respect community sovereignty; and, (6) applying culturally informed bioethics frameworks. Our discussion highlights persistent needs to address community rights and benefits and to dismantle colonial legacies within global health and human biology while recognizing structural barriers to implementing these needed changes, particularly within the context of global health projects wherein human biologists are not the main power brokers or resource holders. When interfacing with global health, human biologists must continue to pursue health equity and decolonization through implementing critical, culturally informed bioethics frameworks centering community engagement

Bioethics · Community engagement · Medical education · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Ethics in Clinical Research · Health Policy Implementation Science · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Public Health Policies and Education