TY - JOUR
T1 - Experiencing Health Services Research in the Global South
T2 - a Collaborative Autoethnography of Two Social Work Researchers
AU - Tabb, Karen M.
AU - Valdovinos, Miriam G.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors received fellowship support from National Center for Research Resources TL1 RR025016, Fogarty International Center awards R25TW007490-02, D43TW008438-0109, and D43TW009375, but the views presented in this paper do not reflect the funders. No funding was received to produce this study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019/9/15
Y1 - 2019/9/15
N2 - Maternal health services research yields the potential to improve global health outcomes across countries. Many of the low-cost and effective clinical innovations to improve maternal mental health outcomes are implemented in the Global South. However, there remains a lack of collaboration from the Global South to the Global North. In this qualitative narrative, we use a collaborative autoethnographical approach to describe a doctoral training health services research experience between North America and South America. In this paper, we describe the ways power and privilege manifest in a South American research training program and our particular positionality as North American women of color. We will also describe the role of cultural humility and awareness of colonization as it translates to research training across the North and South. In conclusion, we will share lessons learned in forming skills to establish partnerships and where our maternal health collaboration aims to continue to build mutual collaboration across countries.
AB - Maternal health services research yields the potential to improve global health outcomes across countries. Many of the low-cost and effective clinical innovations to improve maternal mental health outcomes are implemented in the Global South. However, there remains a lack of collaboration from the Global South to the Global North. In this qualitative narrative, we use a collaborative autoethnographical approach to describe a doctoral training health services research experience between North America and South America. In this paper, we describe the ways power and privilege manifest in a South American research training program and our particular positionality as North American women of color. We will also describe the role of cultural humility and awareness of colonization as it translates to research training across the North and South. In conclusion, we will share lessons learned in forming skills to establish partnerships and where our maternal health collaboration aims to continue to build mutual collaboration across countries.
KW - Collaborative autoethnography
KW - Global health
KW - Maternal health services
KW - Research partnerships
KW - Social work education
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U2 - 10.1007/s40609-018-0124-x
DO - 10.1007/s40609-018-0124-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 32864295
AN - SCOPUS:85070418811
VL - 6
SP - 189
EP - 198
JO - Global Social Welfare
JF - Global Social Welfare
SN - 2196-8799
IS - 3
ER -