Global Health Partnerships: Check Your Privilege at the Border | Lisa V. Adams | TEDxDartmouth

After 10 years of working in global health, Adams learned firsthand how easy it is for the US partner to inadvertently steamroll a global partnership and jeopardize an entire project. Adams explains what’s at risk when partners from wealthy countries collaborate with low-income partners and ignore the inherent power imbalance and complex historical legacies of the places where they work. Recounting her personal field experience, Adams proposes a new paradigm for academic global engagement and suggests steps we can take to radically shift our approaches and practices to create equitable partnerships and avoid replicating the very disparities we seek to mitigate. Lisa V. Adams is a physician, TB/HIV researcher, the Associate Dean for Global Health and Director of the Center for Global Health Equity at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Dartmouth College. In all her roles, she develops and oversees cross-cutting global health programs for faculty and students to promote health equity, most recently with partners in Tanzania, Rwanda, Eswatini, Kosovo, and the Arctic region. Her research focuses on improving the delivery of TB care to vulnerable populations, including people living with HIV, children, and those suffering from drug-resistant TB. She writes and speaks widely on the importance of ensuring that all people have an equal chance at health. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx