Engaging community partners to work as co-researchers and research assistants for research involving Inuit communities or regions helps to ensure the equitable recognition of community and researcher priorities, mutual trust and respect, participation by local participants, inclusion of local knowledge and local uptake of research findings. However, research knowledge still in development among...

To date, much attention has focused on the advantages of public-private partnerships for critical infrastructure protection in the United States. These include reducing the duplication of effort, enhancing cross-sector communication, increasing efficiency, and ultimately achieving the protection objectives better than government or business acting independently. The benefits suggest that public...

BACKGROUND Family violence is a significant and complex public health problem that demands collaboration between researchers, practitioners, and policymakers for systemic, sustainable solutions. An integrated knowledge translation network was developed to support joint research production and application in the area. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which the internation...

INTRODUCTION Research on the intimate partnerships of female sex workers (FSWs) tends to focus on the risks associated with these relationships. This paper takes as its starting point that the situation of FSWs is better understood by including knowledge of the benefits of their intimate partnerships. Specifically, we employ the conceptual framework provided by emergent research examining intim...

This article describes a four-phased action research project that emerged over six-year period, eventually leading to $600,000 investment by local government in new neighborhood park. We demonstrate, through our community-university partnership, how we built on each phase of initially establishing and developing relationships, increasing participation levels the organization sponsored events, b...

Opening Figure. An analysis conducted by Thornton Tomasetti on a commercial project compares embodied carbon for several different material superstructure arrangements. (Credit: Tomasetti)...

Theory: In Western countries there is a growing awareness that the way in which health professionals work needs to be more responsive to patients’ and population health needs and problems [1] integrated care is seen as the way forward [2–4]. In the Netherlands low patient satisfaction and participation of multi-problem patients and high health care costs in two deprived neighbourhoods, initiate...