BACKGROUND All parties in community-academic partnerships have a vested interest prevention program success. Markers of success that reflect community's experiences of programmatic prevention success are not always measurable, but critically speak to community-defined needs. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this manuscript was to (1) describe our systematic process for linking locally relevant commun...

PURPOSE To systematically identify, describe and characterise the collaborative initiatives, which have been established between the Academic Medical Centre/University of Amsterdam and local health care providers in the adjacent community. BACKGROUND The viability of university hospitals is jeopardised. Their narrowed orientation on delivering the most advanced services to the sickest patient...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a process evaluation of the Restoration Center Los Angeles, a community-academic partnered planning effort aimed at holistically addressing the unmet mental health and substance abuse needs of the Los Angeles African American community. DESIGN Semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions on key domains of partnership effectiveness were conducted with a random stra...

BACKGROUND To decrease the gulf between academic and community perspectives, there has been an increased call among stakeholder groups to collaborate in solving complex urban health problems. Despite these recent shifts, however, community partners face barriers to participate in conferences, ultimately limiting exchange of ideas and uptake of research data. This paper reports on the evaluation...

BACKGROUND Underrepresentation of racial minorities in research contributes to health inequities. Important factors contributing to low levels of research participation include limited access to health care and research opportunities, lack of perceived relevance, power differences, participant burden, and absence of trust. We describe an enhanced model of community engagement in which we develo...

Traditionally, family doctors who had an interest in academic scholarship had no choice but to work at academic teaching centres, where teaching went hand in hand with the scholarly aspects of an academic appointment. However, in the past several years medical education has expanded beyond the boundaries of the academic teaching centres into the surrounding communities. New community-based facu...

To the Editor—David et al recently reported that the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) hospitalizations has significantly increased in US academic medical centers since 2003. They based this conclusion on analysis of billing data from the University Health Consortium. Their findings seemingly disagree with those of other investigators. Recently, Landrum et al repo...