Collaborations among researchers and across disciplinary, organizational, and cultural
boundaries are vital to address increasingly complex challenges and opportunities in …

How can progress in research on health behavior change be accelerated? Experimental
medicine (EM) offers an approach that can help investigators specify the research questions …

Convergence of the life sciences with fields including physical, chemical, mathematical,
computational, engineering, and social sciences is a key strategy to tackle complex …

Interdisciplinary research and collaborations are essential to disentangle complex and
wicked global socio-ecological challenges. However, institutional structures and practices to …

Although current literature highlights a wide variety of potential citizen science project
outcomes, no prior studies have systematically assessed performance against a …

Scientific teams are increasingly diverse in discipline, international scope and
demographics. Diversity has been found to be a driver of innovation but also can be a …

PURPOSE An isolated focus on 1 disease at a time is insufficient to generate the scientific
evidence needed to improve the health of persons living with more than 1 chronic condition …

The problems we face in the 21st century require innovative thinking from all of us. Be it
students, academics, business researchers of government policy makers. Hopes for …

In recent decades, research universities have been engaged in fostering interdisciplinary
research (IDR) in an attempt to support high-impact research that can benefit not only the …

As a long-term social scientist and recent past director of the Institute for Social Research
(ISR) at the University of Michigan, I was asked by the editors of this new book to write a …