Global Health Technologies: Time To Re-Think The ‘Trickle Down’ Model

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Technologies (e.g. vaccines, drugs, diagnostics) are critical for addressing global health needs. But the field of global health has a problem - an excessive reliance on the trickle-down model, where products and innovations are developed in the Global North, and after a decade or two, they slowly trickle down to the Global South, where the biggest needs are, and where technologies often have the greatest impact. This model needs a re-think.

Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/madhukarpai/2020/02/17/global-health-technologies-time-to-re-think-the-trickle-down-model/#a97a01e44d97