Establishing Clinical Trial Priorities for Military Global Health Research

Military leaders must support health care and research to protect the health and readiness of their forces. Part of this effort entails conducting human subjects research to address current and emerging international health threats. The military is also attentive to the national security interests associated with global health, such as protection from widespread disruption due to disasters and epidemics. While military leaders’ global health research objectives relate to the military's strategic goals, including force health protection and national security, it is only through longstanding partnerships with partner nations in several world regions that much of the relevant research is possible. Yet military priorities may differ starkly from those of the collaborating partner nations, raising concerns about the potential for exploitation in global health partnerships. However, in spite of differences in overall strategic priorities, a convergence of stakeholder interests allows for appropriate alignment in the choice of clinical research activities at global health sites supported by the military. These complex collaborative research arrangements depend on negotiating and navigating the selection of research goals and activities to ensure fairness and balancing of priorities among partners, thereby maintaining research infrastructure and capacity. Leaders of military institutions and partner nations must attend to the need for this sustained effort to balance priorities to ensure equity and successful maintenance of these essential relationships

Clinical trial · Equity (law) · Global health · Health care · Medical research · Negotiation · Research ethics · Stakeholder · Global Health and Surgery · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies

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