Table 2 Summary of included studies
First Author and last authors | Year of publication | Title of paper | Study design | Number of interviews or FGDs | Kinds of participants | Location of study participants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
B. Jentsch; C. Pilley | 2003 | Research relationships between the South and the North: Cinderella and the ugly sisters? | Case study analysis; interviews | 2 case studies; 7 interviews | Researchers | United Kingdom; Bangladesh; Thailand |
K.A. Muldoon; D.M. Moore | 2012 | Supporting Southern-led Research: Implications for North-South Research Partnerships | Interviews | 12 interviews | Nurses; doctors; counsellors; information technology personnel; laboratory technicians; human resource managers | Uganda |
P. Tindana; M. Parker | 2014 | Ethical issues in the export, storage and reuse of human biological samples in biomedical research: perspectives of key stakeholders in Ghana and Kenya | Interviews and focus group discussions | 44 interviews; 6 focus groups | Researchers, fieldworkers; research assistants; laboratory staff; members of ethics committees; directors of research institutions; community representatives | Kenya and Ghana |
F.M. Okwaro; P. W. Geissler | 2015 | In/dependent Collaborations: Perceptions and Experiences of African Scientists in Transnational HIV Research | Ethnography (in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, informal chats, and observations with scientists and other staff) | 29 interviews; 6 focus groups | African scientists, laboratory technicians, mobilizers, administrators, nurses, and counsellors | East Africa |
K. Moodley; S. Singh | 2016 | “It’s all about trust”: reflections of researchers on the complexity and controversy surrounding biobanking in South Africa | Interviews | 21interviews | Researchers (bio-medical); biobanking and governance experts | South Africa |
A. Walsh; E. Byrne | 2016 | “The way the country has been carved up by researchers”: ethics and power in North-south public health research | Interviews | 53 interviews | Researchers (bio-medical and social science); government officials; NGOs | Zambia; and Northern researchers involved research based on Zambia |
M. Parker; P. Kingori | 2016 | Good and Bad Research Collaborations: Researchers’ Views on Science and Ethics in Global Health Research | Interviews | 22 interviews | Principal investigators; research funders; network coordinators; clinical trial managers; epidemiologists; laboratory managers; IT specialists, and statisticians, clinical researchers and managers of research institutions | South-East Asia, South Asia, East Africa, West Africa, Europe, Oceania, and North America |
N.S. Munung; J de Vries | 2017 | Equity in international health research collaborations in Africa: Perceptions and expectations of African researchers | Interviews | 17 interviews | Principal investigators; co-principal investigators; research | 8 African countries |
J. Guzman; E.R. Mendoza | 2017 | Ethical challenges for international collaborative research partnerships in the context of the Zika outbreak in the Dominican Republic: a qualitative case study | Interviews and focus group discussions | 39 (includes both interviews and focus groups) | Researchers; NGOs; private organizations; government officials | Dominican Republic |
T.F.L. Matenga; O. Mweemba | 2019 | Contemporary issues in North–south health research partnerships: perspectives of health research stakeholders in Zambia | Interviews | 20 interviews | Principal investigators; project managers; laboratory managers; clinical researchers; academic researchers; members of ethics committees; government officials | Zambia |
F. Binka | 2005 | North–South research collaborations: a move towards a true partnership? | Editorial | N/A | N/A | N/A |