Background: Interdisciplinary health research is a priority of many funding agencies. We
surveyed clinician and biomedical scientists about their views on the value and funding of …

Background Interdisciplinary research has been promoted as an optimal research paradigm
in the health sciences, yet little is known about how researchers experience …

Background Guidance on how different disciplines from the natural, behavioural and social
sciences can collaborate to resolve complex public health problems is lacking. This article …

Worldwide there is a growing interest in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research. This
Viewpoint addresses some of the pitfalls of, and barriers to, being an interdisciplinary …

Increasingly funders of life sciences research are promoting large interdisciplinary teams in
order to address complex problems. This creates a dissonance with academic institutions …

Background While the desirability of interdisciplinary inquiry has been widely
acknowledged, indeed has become'the mantra of science policy', the methods of …

Interdisciplinarity has become popular in health services research. Advocates suggest that
interdisciplinary approaches may produce more accessible, applicable, exciting and realistic …

Background Forty-six academic health centers have been awarded Clinical and
Translational Science Awards by the National Institutes of Health to enhance health by …

Background In 1985 medical schools were integrated into the Ministry of Health, and the
Ministry of Health and Medical Education was created in Iran. Under this infrastructure …

Purpose To review the literature on health research collaborations by academic entities and
to identify the main phases, components, and concepts of these research collaborations …