Community–University Health Research Partnerships

Consumer-driven health care: building partnerships in research.

Over the past four decades, there has been a widespread movement to increase the involvement of patients and the public in health care. Strategies to effectively foster consumer participation are occurring within all research activities from research priority setting to utilization. One of the ten principles of the Cochrane Collaboration is to 'enable wide participation', and this includes cons...

Building Partnerships and Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Oral Health Research

Schools of dentistry in large health science centers, while offering excellent education programs, often fail to attain high levels of research for several reasons, including 1) a limited number of faculty who become consumed by the school’s teaching mission to the extent that major research is not possible; and 2) faculty often come from the ranks of practitioners and are not necessarily train...

Partnerships in health research: experiences from developing country.

Developing a framework for successful research partnerships in global health

BACKGROUND The Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin has as one of its goals, strengthening health systems in developing countries. In realising this goal we work across more than 40 countries with third-level, civil society, government, private sector and UN partners. Each of these requires that different relationships be established. Good principles must guide all global health res...

Global partnerships for health.

As a reflexion on Dr Brundtland's speech, I would like to stress the important role global partnerships can play in the struggle for equitable health improvement. Dr Brundtland's focus, reasonably, is on infectious diseases with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS and SARS. She puts much emphasis on the undoubted successes in 2003 in controlling SARS, but less emphasis on our shamefully slow response to HI...