A conceptual framework for analysing partnership and synergy in a global health alliance: case of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team.

ABSTRACT: Partnerships have become increasingly important in addressing complex global health challenges, a reality exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic and previous infectious disease epidemics. Partnerships offer opportunities to create synergistic outcomes by capitalizing on complimentary skills, knowledge and resources. Despite the importance of understanding partnership functioning, research on collaboration is sparse and fragmented, with few conceptual frameworks applied to evaluate real-life partnerships in global health. In this study, we aimed to adapt and apply the Bergan Model of Collaborative Functioning (BMCF) to analyse partnership functioning in the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST), a government-academic partnership, dedicated to outbreak response and research in low- an

SUBMITTER: Raftery P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9383178 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature