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Awareness is growing, but still today researchers from high-income countries sometimes conduct research that relies on analyzing samples collected in low-income countries without affording any benefit to local scientists or community. This practice of “dropping in” on another country to take whatever is needed to further research, termed “parachute science,” can apply to any scientific field. Human microbiome research is now going global. Scientists are characterizing the biodiversity of human gut microbes by sampling stool from individuals from diverse populations worldwide. We, at the Global Microbiome Conservancy, are part of this effort. It is an ethical imperative to engage populations from low-income countries in microbiome research. Decades of microbiology research has mainly focused on populations living in urban areas of Europe and North America, creating a strong disparity in our knowledge of the human microbiome biased towards industrialised populations. Yet the fastest rate

Leave “Parachute Science” Behind When Jumping Into Global Microbiome Research – MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics & Therapeutics (CMIT) Events News Newsletter Tags: equity and inclusion , GMbC , health equity Home » News Leave “Parachute Science” Behind When Jumping Into Global Microbiome Research BY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GLOBAL MICROBIOME CONSERVANCY Awareness is growing, but still today researchers from high-income countries sometimes conduct research that relies on analyzing samples collected in low-income countries without affording any benefit to local scientists or community.

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