Citation

Smith LS, Wilkins N, Marshall SW, Dellapenna AJ, Pressley JC, Bauer M, South EC, Green K. J. Public Health Manag. Pract. 2018; 24(Suppl 1): S67-S74.

Affiliation

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia (Drs Smith and Wilkins); Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Dr Marshall); Injury Prevention Research Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Dr Marshall); Head, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch, Chronic Disease and Injury Section, Division of Public Health, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina (Mr Dellapenna); Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York (Dr Pressley); Outreach Core, Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention at Columbia University, New York, New York (Dr Pressley); Epidemiology and Surveillance, Bureau of Occupational Health and Injury Prevention, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York (Mr Bauer); Department of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Dr South); and Philadelphia Land Care Program, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Mr Green).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PHH.0000000000000675

PMID

29189506

Abstract

One of the most substantial challenges facing the field of injury and violence prevention is bridging the gap between scientific knowledge and its real-world application to achieve population-level impact. Much synergy is gained when academic and practice communities collaborate; however, a number of barriers prevent better integration of science and practice. This article presents 3 examples of academic-practitioner collaborations, their approaches to working together to address injury and violence issues, and emerging indications of the impact on integrating research and practice. The examples fall along the spectrum of engagement with nonacademic partners as coinvestigators and knowledge producers. They also highlight the benefits of academic-community partnerships and the engaged scholarship model under which Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded Injury Control Research Centers operate to address the research-to-practice and practice-to-research gap.

Language: en