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Global emergency medicine (GEM) is a relatively new, and rapidly growing, subspecialty bridging the fields of global health and emergency medicine (EM), which focuses on improving the science and practice of emergency care (EC) globally. 7 8 These discussions are not limited to academia, and calls for equitable representation and influence of patients, clinicians and policymakers from LMICs in decision-making processes are similarly ongoing. 2 4 7 Previous evaluations of authorship equity within the general global health literature have shown under-representation of LMIC authors and a predominance of authors affiliated with HIC institutions. 2–6 One such inequity is seen in authorship representation in global health research conducted in LMICs. 1 Despite the field’s emphasis on equity, a growing body of literature has highlighted pervasive inequities in global health research that mirror existing power asymmetries between researchers based in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) versus high-income countries (HICs).
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Global health is a broad and interdisciplinary field focused on ‘improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide’. Correspondence to Dr Stephanie Chow Garbern.27 Department of Emergency Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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26 Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.25 Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA.24 Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 23 Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H.22 Accident & Emergency Department, The Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.21 University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, USA.20 Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.19 Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.18 Department of Internal Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.17 Emergency Medical Services, Ghana National Ambulance Service, Accra, Ghana.16 Emergency Medicine Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi.15 Adult Emergency and Trauma Centre, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Ministry of Health - Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi.14 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
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