The first Plenary Session on the third day of WCRI 2024 focused on “The 7th WCRI Cape Town statement on fostering research integrity through fairness and equity one year on” chaired by Eleni Spyrakou. There were three speakers and topics:
The first topic was “The Cape Town statement on fostering research integrity through fairness and equity: A recap and overview” by Lyn Horn. The second was “Benchmarking academic editor diversity at Springer Nature journals” by Ed Gerstner. Last was about “From principles to practice: using equitable partnership tools to action the Cape Town Statement” by Michelle Brear.
The WCRI Cape Town Statement is akin to the values of 101 Health Research. The goals of the Cape Town Statement deeply resonates with the very reason 101 Health Research exists:
“Research should deliver accurate, replicable, and unbiased results reported responsibly, with the appropriate acknowledgement of all stakeholders. To be valuable, trustworthy, and usable in local settings the research should be translatable into locally relevant and locally owned and accessible interventions or policies, where applicable. Research integrity educational programmes and other related initiatives should support researchers to reflect these goals in the planning, conduct, and dissemination of their research.”
As a health research company in an LMIC, 101 Health Research has always dedicated its efforts to empower researchers and build research systems. “We strongly believe that we can help our fellow health and healthcare institutions. We need to capacitate ourselves more to continue on this mission, towards the next decade of discovery and beyond.”
You can read the full Cape Town Statement here: https://www.wcrif.org/guidance/cape-town-statement.
