Collaboration under pressure: sustaining One Health research teams in a post-COVID environment
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Collaborative One Health research teams are vital for tackling global health challenges but face threats from higher education reforms and managerial practices. Ensuring their sustainability requires institutional changes, inclusive leadership, and alignment with global goals like the SDGs.
Area Of Science
- Multidisciplinary research
- Global health
- One Health initiatives
Background
- Collaborative research teams are crucial for addressing complex global health issues and emerging infectious diseases, exemplified by the One Health approach.
- The sustainability of these teams is threatened by neoliberal reforms in higher education, creating a competitive marketplace and prioritizing measurable outputs over collaboration.
- The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the fragility of research teams due to laboratory closures, increased workloads, and financial pressures, despite the essential role of collaboration.
Purpose Of The Study
- To examine the systemic and interpersonal factors influencing the functioning of One Health research teams in the post-COVID era.
- To identify persistent challenges such as funding precarity, employment insecurity, inequities, and political instability.
- To explore the impact of performance pressures and competition on collaborative dynamics within research teams.
Main Methods
- This is an Opinion article, presenting a critical analysis of the current state of collaborative research.
- It synthesizes existing literature and expert perspectives on the challenges facing multidisciplinary research teams.
- The article discusses systemic pressures and interpersonal dynamics affecting research team functionality.
Main Results
- Systemic pressures, including funding precarity and employment insecurity, significantly impact research team resilience.
- Managerial practices prioritizing measurable outputs can undermine collegiality, autonomy, and disciplinary breadth, hindering effective collaboration.
- Interpersonal dynamics are affected by competition and performance pressures, potentially compromising team cohesion and productivity.
Conclusions
- Sustaining One Health research and other multidisciplinary endeavors requires significant institutional reforms.
- Inclusive leadership, recognition of diverse contributions, and alignment with global frameworks like the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are essential for resilience and impact.
- Addressing funding precarity and employment insecurity is critical for the long-term viability of collaborative research addressing emerging and neglected diseases.
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