Reverse innovation and opportunities for implementation science |
Training opportunities for early career investigators |
Personal enrichment |
US State Department: soft power influence through health diplomacy |
Unique environmental exposures and doses |
Improve reputation and prestige, and thus the strength of faculty and student applicants |
Expanded pool of mentors |
Industry: help feed pipeline of young investigators; efficiency of clinical trials; support labor force for US industries abroad |
Genetic diversity |
Create sense of solidarity among faculty |
Develop leadership skills |
Global academic partners: universities working together to develop research infrastructure and skills |
Immigrant and minority health |
Engage in university mission |
Establish partnerships that could last decades |
Research investments can be sources of revenue through patentable ideas |
US military, expatriate, and traveler health |
Increase visibility with other organizations |
Platform for early career investigators to develop their own pathways |
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Standardization and validation of different tools in diverse populations |
Partnering with other strong institutions in low- and middle-income countries extends reach of limited resources |
Interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, new perspectives, people |
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Access to diseases or advanced disease stages that are rare in US |
Diversify student body, trainees, and faculty from low- and middle-income countries |
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Unique opportunity to study interactions with infectious diseases |
Increase breadth of diseases studied and appeal to prospective students and faculty |
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Basic science research cheaper |
Research drives creativity and innovation in healthcare |
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Drug discovery (traditional medicines) |
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