Addressing Injuries in Vulnerable Populations: Research Collaborations and Partnerships

Addressing Injuries in Vulnerable Populations: Research Collaborations and Partnerships

Injury-related morbidity and mortality disproportionately impact vulnerable groups, including children under the age of 5, older adults, racial and ethnic minority populations, and people of low socioeconomic status. The Emory Center for Injury Control (ECIC) is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Injury Control Research Center charged with reducing the health and economic impact...

Medical-legal partnerships: transforming primary care by addressing the legal needs of vulnerable populations.

Health care is undermined when patients don't receive the benefit of laws intended to address social determinants of health, such as housing and food. Medical-legal partnerships, which now exist in more than 200 clinical sites in the United States, integrate lawyers into health care to address legal problems that create and perpetuate poor health. This paper describes how such medical-legal par...

Building Partnerships and Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Oral Health Research

Schools of dentistry in large health science centers, while offering excellent education programs, often fail to attain high levels of research for several reasons, including 1) a limited number of faculty who become consumed by the school’s teaching mission to the extent that major research is not possible; and 2) faculty often come from the ranks of practitioners and are not necessarily train...

Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable People

Cultural competence in interdisciplinary collaborations: a method for respecting diversity in research partnerships.

There is growing recognition of the need by funding agencies, universities, and research units for interdisciplinary research to tackle complex societal problems that cannot be adequately addressed by single disciplines alone. Interdisciplinary collaboration capitalizes on a diversity of perspectives and practices that each discipline offers in hopes of providing innovative solutions to multifa...