Originally posted on Flying Evidence:
In several occasions, I have been surprised on the perception of some researchers that any strategy and project that worked in their countries can be easily transferred and used in another one. If one never lived in a country, it is very difficult to imagine what are the barriers and challenges that people (living there) face.
I recently peer reviewed a project report for someone on implementing some scientific projects in developing countries. It is a bit extreme (and in my view wrong) assumption that all developing countries are the same and can be treated as a group of similar countries. In addition to this, most of the included studies in the report recommended to start the project with a situation analysis on burden of disease, other data in that country. In most of the developing countries that I have lived in (or know people who lived there), there are…
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