Global Health Mentorship: Challenges and Opportunities for Equitable Partnership

⇒ Mentorship in global health is a critical determinant of equitable, sustainable and inclusive improvements in health outcomes globally.⇒ Researchers from the Global South face unique global health mentorship challenges.Some of these challenges include: limited opportunities, access to mentorship opportunities, lack of a healthy mentorship culture, weak and insufficient institutional support, language barriers (non-English speakers) and colonial mentorship mindset.⇒ Healthy and respectful South-South and North-South collaborations and partnerships are needed.Indeed, ensuring ethical mentorship practices that respect and learn from cultural differences and integrate bidirectional North-South and South-North co-learning parallels are needed.⇒ A decolonised global health mentorship agenda is highly needed.Operationalising what ethical global health mentorship is, or should be, and how global health mentorship should be decolonised remain areas that deserve keen attention.