Co-production needs to become an integral part of the training and funding of researchers to ensure research meets everyone’s needs, argue David Beran and colleagues
Global health research needs to include a greater diversity of stakeholders within the research process. Involving people who are not academics in the co-production of research has many potential benefits: generation of a wider range of ideas; including the needs of people directly affected by the research; inclusion of broader sets of skills and views, values, and epistemologies in designing projects; allowing dialogue, participative decision making processes throughout the development and delivery of research; ensuring uptake of research results; increasing legitimacy and acceptance; and assuring sustainability…
Investment in creating platforms to enable equal exchanges facilitates relationships between researchers and stakeholders. For example, the James Lind Alliance brings together people with specific health needs, carers, and clinicians to identify and prioritise research gaps with the aim of improving care…more