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Three Dimensions of Compounding Neglect: How Biobanks, Clinical Trials, and Scientific Literature Systematically Exclude the Global South

2026-02-11 public and global health Title + abstract only
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Global health inequities are widely documented in outcomes. However, the research systems that generate knowledge, trials, and discovery have rarely been evaluated as an integrated structure. We introduce the Health Equity Informative Metrics (HEIM) framework, a three-dimensional audit of discovery (biobank output), translation (clinical trial activity), and knowledge (semantic organisation of the scientific literature). Analysing 70 international biobanks, 563,725 registered clinical trials, 13...

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