Abstract
Abstract Introduction: In December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for rapid collaboration, research, and interventions. International research collaborations foster more significant responses to rapid global changes by enabling international, multicentre research, decreasing biases, and increasing study validity while reducing overall research time and costs. However, there has been low uptake of collaborative research by African institutions and individuals. Aim: To systematically review the critical success factors and challenges to collaborative surgical research studies conducted in Africa. Methodology: A systematic review using PubMed®/ MEDLINE and EMBASE on surgical collaboration in Africa from 1st of January 2011 to 31st of September 2021 per PRISMA guidelines. Fifty-five papers met the criteria for inclusion. In addition, data on the study period, geographical regions, and research scope, success factors, and challenges, were also extracted from the studies retrieved from the search.
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