BACKGROUND The nursing profession is exploring how academic-practice partnerships should be structured to maximize the potential benefits for each partner. As part of an evaluation of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Nursing Academy (VANA) program, we sought to identify indicators of successful partnerships during the crucial first year. METHODS We conducted a qualitative analysis of 1...

There is a growing trend of academic partnerships between U.S., Canadian, and European health science institutions and academic health centers in low- and middle-income countries. These partnerships often encounter challenges such as resource disparities and power differentials, which affect the motivations, expectations, balance of benefits, and results of the joint projects. Little has been d...

An emerging best practice of addressing health and improving health disparities in communities is ensuring that academic health centers (AHCs) are engaged with area schools, primary care practices, and community advocates as equal partners in research, services, and programs. The literature documents the importance of ensuring that academic-community collaboration is based on equity, trust, and...

Many universities are seeking new ways to interact with industry on a variety of levels and for a variety of reasons. Public universities in particular face significant challenges in the 21 century, with the decline of state funding, the rapid pace of change in the world around them, and increasing demands from different stakeholders. To meet these challenges and opportunities, many universitie...

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...

Community-academic partnerships in the training of doctors offer unique learning opportunities of great importance. Such partnerships can induce a paradigm shift such that physicians view community as a teaching resource and partner rather than as a passive recipient of services or solely as a placement site. The authors describe a model of a community-academic partnership in New York City, beg...