Community-Based Research Partnerships: Challenges and Opportunities

Commentary: Reaping the benefits of research partnerships: challenges and opportunities.

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...

Challenges and Opportunities for Population Health Partnerships

The Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease discuss ideas, policies, and practices that can be used to produce a healthier population in the United States and globally. The articles pose the following questions: 1) How do we best measure long-term wellness at the population level?, 2) How do we provide incentives to organizations to...

Challenges: Opportunities For Coalition-Based Community Networking

Current business models for the service provision of Internet connectivity focus on individual users or parties. In the local-area, the use of wireless technologies promotes easy interconnectivity and resource sharing between local users, leading to the appearance of community networks — ad hoc networks residing at the edge of, but still connected to, the Internet. Currently, such activities ar...

Community Resilience Research: Current Approaches, Challenges and Opportunities

Islam; Challenges and Opportunities

Undoubtedly Islamic Revolution of Iran has been the source of Islamic awakening in the middle-east. Therefore Islamic Republic of Iran plays the role of an example and a director of political developments in the region. Islamic awakening in Arab countries has been able to question the dominant discourse of dictators in the middle-east region and topple their regimes. These developments include ...