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About the project
About the project
Led by Dr Mehreen Faisal at the University of York, the Fostering Authorship Inclusion and Representation (FAIR) in Global Health Research (GHR) project brings together a group from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Ghana, to focus on fairness in academic authorship.
The project aims to develop clear, inclusive standards to ensure everyone who contributes to Global Health Research receives rightful recognition. This applies for example, to early/mid-career researchers, those from low- and middle-income countries, data collectors, and community members.
The core team will, through a general survey, and smaller stakeholder consultations, agree on criteria for fair authorship and guidance for projects on how to ensure best practice. A consensus statement with actionable strategies will be published at the end of the project, and the findings shared widely, for example through blogs, publications, and infographics.
Ultimately, this initiative aims to reshape global health research by prioritising inclusion, fairness, and representation across all research outputs.
The project is funded by the Valuing Voices for Equitable and Responsible Research project, a Wellcome-funded project supporting best practice in research and research culture.
The FAIR Survey
The FAIR Survey
The Fostering Authorship Inclusion and Representation (FAIR) in Global Health Research project focuses on fairness in academic authorship. The project aims to develop clear, inclusive standards to ensure everyone who contributes to Global Health Research receives rightful recognition.
As part of this project, we are surveying people working in Global Health Research on their knowledge and attitudes towards authorship of research outputs, and the level of support they may have received in this area.
The survey has now closed! Thank you to all who provided their thoughts.
FAIR at the Department of Health Sciences, Research Showcase
FAIR at the Department of Health Sciences, Research Showcase
Dr Mehreen Faisal and Dr Harriet Evans Tang with a poster for the project at the University of York Department of Health Sciences Research Showcase event on 30th October 2025.
You can view the poster in full on our Outputs page!
Consultation Meetings
Consultation Meetings
On 24th September, the FAIR team held two Consultation Meetings with members from our Global Health networks. A mix of EMCRs and more experienced researchers gathered on Zoom to discuss the key findings of the Survey, and identify priority areas of concern for the project. The group used an impact-feasibility matrix to guide discussion.
Priority areas:
Priority areas:
Supporting the professional development of EMCRs to co-author and lead manuscripts
Promoting the uptake of fair authorship principles at all levels of research
Facilitating inclusive practice outside the academy
Strategy Consultation Meeting
Strategy Consultation Meeting
On 5th November, the FAIR team hosted an online Strategy Consultation with members of our Global Health Research Networks. It was a fantastic session, discussing the operationalisation of anonymmously submitted strategies for addressing our priority areas
We used the AACTT (Action, actor, context, target, time) framework to frame the discussion, and are currently compiling the results. We will then share these with particpants for further feedback, before streamlining the strategies and consensis points for presentation at the Centre for IMPACT Annual Meeting in mid-November.
We used a Google Form to allow participants to submit strategy ideas anonymously before the meeting; and the Zoom Whiteboard feature to facilitate anonymous contributions in the meeting. It was especially interesting to hear from those with personal experience of the topics, who offered up case studies that will inform our work going forward.
Next steps
Next steps
Watch this space for blogs and publications, coming soon!
The Team
The Team
Dr Mehreen Faisal
University of York
Dr Hannah Jennings
University of York
Dr Gerardo Zavala
University of York
Dr Faraz Siddiqui
University of York
Dr Abdul Rahman Shahab
HealthNet TPO
Amna Babar
Institute of Psychiatry, Rawalpindi Medical University, Pakistan
Dr Naveed Ahmed
Diabetic Association of Bangladesh-Centre for Health Research and Implementation (BADAS-CHRI), Bangladesh
Dr Leonard Baatiema
University of Ghana
Dr Harriet Evans Tang
University of York
About the Valuing Voices Project
About the Valuing Voices Project
Find out more about the Valuing Voices project here!
The Valuing Voices for Equitable and Responsible Research project supports best practice in research and research culture.
Their main focus is the creation of a tool that enables the research community to design and deliver equitable and responsible research projects that place people and society at the forefront. The tool has been co-produced by members of our research community, including practitioners, stakeholders and global partners at The University of York and Mahidol University.
Working together, they have identified five principles for responsible and equitable research. The tool guides researchers through these principles to ensure they are considered from the start of a research project.
The FAIR journey so far...
The FAIR journey so far...
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