Twenty steps to ingrain power asymmetry in global health biomedical research

Health research in low-income settings must prioritize sustainability to truly impact target diseases in the long term.Here, I satirically summarize how biomedical investigators from high-income countries can collaboratively work to (not) accomplish this.Are you a laboratory scientist par excellence with international research ambitions?You could address scientific roadblocks in the important and highly fundable field of global health, which is rich in "partnerships" but poor in true technology transfer [1,2] by closely, or even loosely, following these 20 steps.As your interest is in "global health" and my tip list draws on common stereotypes, I'll presume that you are a high-income country scientist with low-income country research aspirations.