- 1Why partnership is a design problemGlobal health research is done in teams, and those teams are often unequal before anyone sits down at the table. Where that inequality comes from, what the calls to decolonize global health are asking for, and what team science says about designing a collaboration rather than assuming one.5 min
- 2Whose vision gets fundedA team needs a shared vision, but a vision recruited one person at a time and a vision forged by a crisis produce very different collaborations. How teams develop through forming, storming, norming, and performing, and why funding decides whose vision becomes reality.5 min
- 3Conflict, leadership, and creditEffective research teams tend to have more conflict, not less, because the work invites disagreement. Keeping scientific conflict from turning personal, what leadership and mentoring look like when any team member can lead, and the problem of crediting collective work through individual prizes and author lists.6 min
- 4The Partnership Pathway: how it nearly fell apartIn the 1990s, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis was widely regarded as untreatable at scale in low-income countries. The partnership that set out to prove otherwise: how it formed through a personal network rather than a call for proposals, how it was structured, and where it started to come apart.6 min
- 5What held it together, and the hard look in the mirrorThe MDR-TB partnership worked, and its treatment approach was integrated into global policy. What actually held it together, and the harder question underneath: good principles can still operate inside an inequitable structure, so it is worth asking who held the authority throughout.5 min