Theme 1: What makes research partnerships good, and why?

Session summary 

In this session we will explore what makes health research partnerships ethically good; what are the values that justify these partnerships and which trade-offs among these values can be acceptable in specific circumstances. The session will contextualise and historically ground partnerships as emerging out of specific historic moments. Through situating partnerships, how we understand what good or bad partnerships are becomes contingent on global and local features. Finally, the session will discuss the operationalization of values by taking the practical example of authorship and moving beyond the structural and descriptive barriers to the ethics behind it.