Successful Global Health Research Partnerships: What Makes Them Work?

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...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

What makes intersectoral partnerships for health promotion work? A review of the international literature.

A Health in All Policies approach requires creating and sustaining intersectoral partnerships for promoting population health. This scoping review of the international literature on partnership functioning provides a narrative synthesis of findings related to processes that support and inhibit health promotion partnership functioning. Searching a range of databases, the review includes 26 studi...

User-Created Groups in Health Forums: What Makes Them Special?

Patients and caregivers often seek help and support through online forums for their ailments. In many health forums, users can not only participate in existing, sitedefined user groups but also initiate their own groups. To better understand the mechanism and usefulness of such user-created groups, we comparatively studied their characteristics against those of site-defined groups, based on an ...

What makes nature-based interventions for mental health successful?

Nature-based interventions for mental health are beginning to become more common in the UK. The evidence for their usefulness is building. Taking the 'A Dose of Nature' project in the south-west as an example, factors for making such interventions a success are described.