Conditions such as autism are poorly researched in low- and middle-income countries, but as interest in studying them grows, so do worries about “parachute” research. This is where investigators from affluent countries collect data from vulnerable populations without the participation of local researchers, leaving without sharing their insights with local communities.
@thetransmitter’s Linda Nordling writes more about this.
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