Author Description

Partnerships between public health practice agencies and academic settings are a key ingredient in expanding public health capacity and achieving healthier communities. The authors bring decades of experience creating, managing, and promoting such partnerships to this must-have book. For anyone interested in building bridges between practice and academia. Readers can benefit from learning the elements that determine these partnerships, why they might be of value, what factors should be considered when contemplating their development, and how practice and academia differ culturally. The reader will also find a working model describing the stages of evolution of these partnerships, tips to enhance the odds that a partnership can be maintained, case studies providing real-world examples, and the answers to frequently asked questions. Also included is a summary of what science has determined about partnership structure and impact, a description of the evolution of these entities over time, and links to many additional resources.