title: Principles for building public-private partnerships to benefit food safety, nutrition, and health research.
abstract: The present article articulates principles for effective public-private partnerships (PPPs) in scientific research. Recognizing that PPPs represent one approach for creating research collaborations and that there are other methods outside the scope of this article, PPPs can be useful in leveraging diverse expertise among government, academic, and industry researchers to address public health needs and questions concerned with nutrition, health, food science, and food and ingredient safety. A three-step process was used to identify the principles proposed herein: step 1) review of existing PPP guidelines, both in the peer-reviewed literature and at 16 disparate non-industry organizations; step 2) analysis of relevant successful or promising PPPs; and step 3) formal background interviews of 27 experienced, senior-level individuals from academia, government, industry, foundations, and non-governmental organizations. This process resulted in the articulation of 12 potential principles for establishing and managing successful research PPPs. The review of existing guidelines showed that guidelines for research partnerships currently reside largely within institutions rather than in the peer-reviewed literature. This article aims to introduce these principles into the literature to serve as a framework for dialogue and for future PPPs.
authors.affiliation: SR Strategy LLC, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Sylvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rowe
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Alexander
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kretser
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Steele
authors.forename: Molly
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kretsch
authors.forename: Rhona
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Applebaum
authors.forename: Fergus
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Clydesdale
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cummins
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hentges
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Navia
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jarvis
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Falci
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D059022:Food Safety; D005524:Food Technology; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D009752:Nutritional Status; D011634:Public Health; D055818:Public-Private Sector Partnerships; D012106:Research
keywords: conflict of interest; guiding principles; public-private partnerships; research