We are also piloting CONNECT+Global, which specifically caters to research projects with a global health focus. As an Institute, we recognize that it is not enough to only promote topics in global health or to implement various unilateral strategies to improve health in a given local setting. Instead, global health research aspects must be addressed jointly in international cooperations, and the research field must aim to establish long-term balanced, collaborative efforts with international partners as equal stakeholders.
 
Acknowledging the increasing importance of global aspects regarding disease control and prevention, global health topics need to be actively promoted in research, also in Germany. This includes training of future global health subject-matter experts in research methodology and promotion of global health research topics amongst future population health methodologists. Research, especially at the level of master's and doctoral thesis projects, is often bound by national borders and/or limited to high-income countries. Therefore, we propose a structure to make contact regarding joint research projects as easy and smooth as possible. We also propose to add an educational component to support trainees of global partners. Due to the nature of the work, global health research projects generally have more international collaboration partners (and trainees) involved, thus the roundtable CONNECT set-up is slightly different in this extension.