Global Health - Partnerships

We strive to foster equitable and sustainable partnerships with researchers in the developing world to tackle major global health problems in a collaborative manner

The Sanger Institute seeks to tackle major scientific problems through international partnership and data-sharing. In the case of global health research, this is of particular importance: we share capacity and resources and benefit from expertise that can only be attained living and working in the developing world. While large-scale partnerships in genomic research are now the norm in the developed world, they pose particular challenges in the context of global health because of the great disparities that exist in research capacity and infrastructure. To foster equitable and sustainable research partnerships it is necessary to make a long-term investment in training, research capacity building and in the development of equitable policies for data sharing. These considerations are key in all the partnerships that we engage in.

The Sanger Institute serves as a resource centre for global health research partnerships such as MalariaGEN and the African Partnership for Chronic Diseases Research, and has close and longstanding collaborative partnerships with the Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programmes in Kenya, Malawi, Thailand and Vietnam. As well as these more formal partnerships, we work closely with numerous groups, institutes and individual researchers across the spectrum of global health at a variety of levels and in many different contexts. A selection of these are listed below.

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