Humensky Jennifer L, Abedin Zainab, Muhammad Kawthar, McClave Michelle, Torres Tiara, DiMaria Elisabeth Swift, Reilly Muredach P, Pincus Harold Alan
Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA.
J Clin Transl Sci. 2019 Oct 30;4(1):22-27. doi: 10.1017/cts.2019.426. eCollection 2020 Feb.
Effectively addressing public health crises requires dynamic and nimble interdisciplinary collaborations across the translational spectrum, from bench to clinic to community. The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program hubs are uniquely suited to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations across universities and academic medical centers. This paper describes the activities at the Columbia University CTSA Program hub to address a current public health crisis, the opioid epidemic. Columbia's CTSA Program hub led a three-phase approach, based on the Conceptual Model of Transdisciplinary Scientific Collaboration as described by Stokols .: (1) a university-wide planning and brainstorming phase to identify key leaders across many domains who are influential in addressing the opioid epidemic, (2) a campus-wide and community outreach to identify all interested parties, and (3) ongoing targeted support for collaboration development. Preliminary metrics of success are interdisciplinary collaborations and grant funding. We describe recent examples of how interdisciplinary collaboration, academic-community partnership, and pilot funding contributed to the development and funding of innovative interdisciplinary research, including the New York site of the HEALing Communities initiative. The processes are now being used to support interdisciplinary approaches for other translational public health issues.
有效应对公共卫生危机需要在从实验室到临床再到社区的转化范围内进行动态灵活的跨学科合作。临床与转化科学奖（CTSA）项目中心非常适合促进大学和学术医疗中心之间的跨学科合作。本文描述了哥伦比亚大学CTSA项目中心为应对当前公共卫生危机——阿片类药物流行所开展的活动。哥伦比亚大学CTSA项目中心采用了斯托科尔斯所描述的跨学科科学合作概念模型，采取了三个阶段的方法：（1）全校范围的规划和头脑风暴阶段，以确定在应对阿片类药物流行方面具有影响力的多个领域的关键领导者；（2）校园和社区范围的外展活动，以确定所有感兴趣的各方；（3）对合作发展的持续有针对性的支持。成功的初步指标是跨学科合作和资助资金。我们描述了跨学科合作、学术-社区伙伴关系以及试点资助如何为创新跨学科研究的发展和资助做出贡献的近期实例，包括“治愈社区”倡议的纽约站点。这些流程目前正用于支持针对其他转化性公共卫生问题的跨学科方法。
