Opportunities for transnational and translational research in Europe.

Abstract

Opportunities for transnational and translational R&D was the title of a paper for this Journal's readers in 2005 (when it was still South African Psychiatry Review). It was intended to encourage exploring opportunities for collaborative research. So what has evolved? Here are some examples of what has been accomplished, and what is in the pipeline of psychiatric collaboration between South Africa (SA), Uganda, and Europe. My intention was not to approach this a a neo-colonialist, rather to stress what I believe to be mutually beneficial projects, emanating from the needs of the African psychiatric patient in various settings.