Practical solutions for sustaining long-term 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...

Sustaining Community-Hospital Partnerships to Improve Population Health

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...

Expanded community health center--academic medical center partnerships.