Expanding Global Rehabilitation Services through International Academic-Community Partnerships

Community/practice/academic partnerships in public health.

The forging of links between academia and the field of practice is a much-discussed topic. The 1988 Institute of Medicine Report on the Future of Public Health noted that public health academic institutions had become “isolated from the field of public health practice.”1 The Committee opined that neither academia nor practice can work at the desired level of excellence without the perspective a...

Enhancing public health research and learning through community-academic partnerships: the Michigan experience.

“. . . Community lies at the heart of public health . . . interventions work best when they are rooted in the values, knowledge, expertise, and interests of the community itself . . . health encompasses the physical, mental, spiritual, environmental and economic well-being of a community and its members. We recognize the power of equal partnerships including community-based organizations, acade...

Capacity building in obstetrics and gynaecology through academic partnerships to improve global women's health beyond 2015.

Significant progress has been made since Allen Rosenfield termed maternal mortality a neglected tragedy and asked ‘where is the M in MCH?’ Recent data from the World Health Organization demonstrates significant declines in maternal mortality ratios, with a 49% reduction in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), from 990 in 1990 to 510 per 100 000 live births in 2013. Still, Millennium Development Goal (MDG)...

Incorporating community-academic partnerships into graduate medical education.

Learning to work together: developing academic and community research partnerships.

BACKGROUND Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been promoted as an important collaborative methodology for addressing local health concerns. However, academic physicians and researchers usually are not trained to work with communities as partners. METHODS Key characteristics of effective community-academic partnerships are examined based on experiences with 2 CBPR projects in Wi...