In 2006, the National Advisory Mental Health Council, which provides guidance to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), produced The Road Ahead: Research Partnerships to Transform Services, a report of recommendations to advance services research and clinical epidemiology. As the report’s name belies, the Council saw partnerships among individuals, organizations and communities as cruc...

The purpose of this study was to better understand how partnerships are initiated, maintained, and sustained in public health practice. A qualitative design was employed to conduct individual interviews and focus groups. The participants included practitioners from 6 purposively selected public health units in the Canadian province of Ontario that developed partnerships in program planning. It ...

Introduction This paper addresses the complexity of industry-academia research partnerships which include students in tripartite management research activities. The context for the paper is “Education about and for sustainability in Australian Business Schools”, a project undertaken by several Australian universities in collaboration with the Australian Research Institute in Education for Susta...

This paper examines the challenges and opportunities in establishing and sustaining north-south research partnerships in Africa through a case study of the UK-Africa Academic Partnership on Chronic Disease. Established in 2006 with seed funding from the British Academy, the partnership aimed to bring together multidisciplinary chronic disease researchers based in the UK and Africa to collaborat...

This paper summarizes recent thinking on stimulating industrial research and development (R&D) for neglected infectious diseases and argues that it is critical to enlarge the value of the market for medicines and vaccines through, for example, global purchase funds. The most important economic barriers to R&D are that the commercial markets are small and that individual purchasing power is seve...

The present paper is a preliminary analysis of the funding, organizational culture, environmental, and innovation challenges that are currently faced by Environmental Research Infrastructures (ERI) and private enterprises working together. We contend there is a strong case for building creative collaboration models across these sectors that also require to new management tools to effectively ge...

When the COVID-19 pandemic began and school buildings had to close, Jennifer Altavilla feared that research-practice partnership (RPP) she was managing would have end. However, after a pause in spring, resumed fall has continued thrive. reflects on her experience how it dovetails with experiences described April 2021 Kappan articles RPPs.