University leadership for innovation in global health and HIV/AIDS diagnostics.
Abstract
Medical products used in the developed world often fail to adequately serve resource-limited
settings where electricity, transportation and health care workers are not readily
available. We suggest that the problem is not only a lack of coordinated financial
resources to purchase existing medical products, but also a lack of products that
are specifically designed for resource-limited settings. While donor organisations
with a focus on global health are increasingly willing to bear the additional financial
risk for the research and development of such high-impact medical products, corporations
are still reluctant to take their best scientists and engineers away from more commercially
attractive projects. Universities, on the other hand, given their teaching and research
missions, are well positioned to engage in such high-risk development projects. A
group of biomedical, engineering, business and social science researchers at Northwestern
University (NU) propose a creative model to address significant social and health
needs. The team's initial product focus is a rapid test for diagnosing infants with
HIV. The NU model aligns the incentives and expertise of industry, donors and academia
to innovate medical products, such as the infant HIV diagnostic test, for resource-limited
settings.
Type
Journal articleSubject
HumansHIV Infections
Leadership
Models, Theoretical
Research
Developing Countries
Intellectual Property
Universities
Infant, Newborn
World Health
Public-Private Sector Partnerships
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/22130Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1080/17441690903456274Publication Info
Palamountain, KM; Stewart, KA; Krauss, A; Kelso, D; & Diermeier, D (2010). University leadership for innovation in global health and HIV/AIDS diagnostics. Global public health, 5(2). pp. 189-196. 10.1080/17441690903456274. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/22130.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Kearsley A Stewart
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