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OBJECTIVE Community-based participatory research has the potential to improve implementation of best practices to reduce disparities but has seldom been applied in mental health services research. This article presents the content and lessons learned from a national conference designed to stimulate such an application. DESIGN Mental health program developers collaborated in hosting a two-day ...

A convergence of events led to a remarkable partnership. It began in 2001 when The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing (UTHSCSA-SON) demonstrated its dedication to developing young researchers by creating a Research Scholars seminar. This seminar is held Fridays at noon at the School of Nursing with research scholars and research faculty joining in discuss...

Public health leaders increasingly recognize the importance of multi-sector partnerships and systems approaches to address obesity. Public-private partnerships (PPP), which are joint ventures between government agencies and private sector entities, may help facilitate this process, but need to be delivered through comprehensive, transparent frameworks to maximize potential benefits and minimize...

EMRs are essential in modern healthcare. At the same time there has been the rapid development of clinical research systems (CRS) which offer specific tools to facilitate research protocol development, execution and management. However, examples of integrating a commercial EMR and CRS are rare. We describe our experience in the analysis, resolution of issues, design, and implementation of EMR/C...

BACKGROUND Implementation of evidence-based mental health assessment and intervention in community public health practice is a high priority for multiple stakeholders. Academic-community partnerships can assist in the implementation of efficacious treatments in community settings; yet, little is known about the processes by which these collaborations are developed. In this paper, we discuss our...

Table of contentsSection 1: Introduction1.1 Civil-military co-operation1.2 Objective, problem definition and research questions1.3 Developing the process-based partnership model1.4 Applying the process-based partnership model in practice1.5 Structure of the reportSection 2: Background caseSection 3: Case study designSection 4: Decision to cooperate4.1...

BACKGROUND 'Evidence-based policy making' for immigrants is a complicated undertaking. In striving toward this goal, federal Canadian partners created the Metropolis Project in 1995 to optimize a two-way transfer of knowledge (researchers - policy makers) within five Canadian Centres of Excellence focused on migrants newly arrived in Canada. Most recently, Metropolis federal partners, including...

Some common challenges of biomedical product translation-scientific, regulatory, adoption, and reimbursement-can best be addressed by the broad sharing of resources or tools. But, such aids remain undeveloped because the undertaking requires expertise from multiple research sectors as well as validation across organizations. Biomedical resource development can benefit from directed consortia-a ...