AUTHOR=Ford Kelsey L. , Portz Jennifer D. , Zhou Shuo , Gornail Starlynne , Moore Susan L. , Zhang Xuhong , Bull Sheana TITLE=Benefits, Facilitators, and Recommendations for Digital Health Academic-Industry Collaboration: A Mini Review JOURNAL=Frontiers in Digital Health VOLUME=3 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2021.616278 DOI=10.3389/fdgth.2021.616278 ISSN=2673-253X ABSTRACT=

Digital health remains a growing and challenging niche in public health practice. Academic-industry collaboration (AIC) offers a mechanism to bring disparate sectors together to alleviate digital health challenges of engagement, reach, sustainability, dissemination, evaluation, and equity. Despite the ongoing endorsements for AIC in digital health, limited understanding exists of successful AIC exists. Most published research highlights the barriers of collaboration rather than efficacy, leaving collaborators asking: What are the benefits and facilitators of AIC and do they apply in digital health? As an initial effort to fill the gap in the literature, the purpose of this mini review outlines the benefits and facilitators from previous AIC and offers recommendations specific to digital health.