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Team science, defined as scientific collaboration across disciplines and knowledge domains, has become essential for translational research, yet teams face recurrent challenges that can impede progress and are often difficult to overcome without additional support. We describe the implementation and initial outcomes of our Team Advice and Consultation Service (TACS), a program designed to address team science challenges at a research-intensive academic medical center engaged in translational science across a broad range of disciplines.
Methods:
Grounded in Knowledge-to-Action framework and Transdisciplinary Innovation theory, TACS provides tailored, case-specific support across the team lifecycle.
Results:
Through thematic analysis of consultations with seven teams (2023–2024), we identified five recurrent challenge domains: organization/structural complexity, team leadership and management, team dynamics and communication, authorship and credit allocation, and conflict resolution.
Conclusion:
Findings underscore the value of structured support for team science and provide insights and potential strategies for institutions seeking to implement similar services.
This chapter highlights how the evolving field of implementation research is being used to address problems of implementation of health policies, programs, practices, and technologies in low and middle-income countries (L&MICs). Implementation research offers a way to understand and address implementation challenges and contribute to building stronger health systems within the realities of specific and changing contexts. It is used to assess how and why interventions work, including the feasibility, adoption, and acceptance of interventions and their coverage, quality, equity, efficiency, scale, and sustainability. A well-designed research question is critical to successful implementation research, and provides the basis for choosing the research methods and how likely the research will influence policy and practice. In describing the theories, frameworks and tools used in implementation research, they are shown to be well suited to address inter-dependent and complex problems around improving people’s wellbeing – a critical mandate for achieving Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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