“…Although these collaborative activities are wide-ranging (emergency preparedness, 3,4 disease prevention and control, [5][6][7][8] reducing health disparities, 9 hospices, 10 minority health, 11 minority workforce recruitment, 12,13 rural health, 14,15 maternal and child health, 16 environmental health, 17,18 education, research, and service, [19][20][21][22][23] and so on), they do not provide a holistic or systems view of academic institution-public health agency (academic-agency) partnerships. Most assessments of these relationships have been conducted by public health academic institutions and primarily reflect the faculties' own reports of success, [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] as do recent assessments involving schools of nursing [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44] and medicine.…”