Solutions identified by country teams included developing appropriate job descriptions for health workers, designing appropriate career development pathways including adequate remuneration packages to attract and retain skilled providers.
However, the lack of established career development pathways may limit the benefits of this synergy for individuals and their institutions.
Goding, Chew and Whitworth identify broader challenges specific to resource-constrained settings, including inadequate funding for health research, poor institutional infrastructure, and lack of appropriate research training, career development pathways and role models opportunities for research scientists [ 8].
Although those with global health experience describe synergies with their domestic work, the lack of established career development pathways may limit the benefits of this synergy for individuals and their institutions.
An extensive review of the literature on career development and pathways for expert/specialist/advanced practice nurses was conducted using CINAHL, Google Scholar, Medline and ProQuest, but no studies were found that provided personal accounts and experiences of these nurses' career trajectories.
Cooperative research with universities may contribute to investigator career development (in the grantee institution pathway).
Develop individualized career development plans.
Of note, the levels of career goal clarity, knowledge, advisor investment, support for pursuit of all career pathways, and structured career development were largely consistent across social identity (i.e., race/ethnicity and gender; see Supplemental Material Table S7), suggesting that these factors are largely shared for graduate students and postdocs from all backgrounds.
Professionals from a variety of careers discuss their work, their career development and decision-points in their career pathways, as well as life style aspects of their choices.
In particular, we focus on the application and review processes for the Fulbright and Fogarty programs, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Career development awards, and the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI), including tips and pathways through each application process.
