Outside Our Walls: the Case for City-Wide Collaboration to Reduce Disparities

Collaborators, Affiliations

Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) Consortium Writing Group:
Ted A James, Susan McCauley, Ellen Ohrenberger, JoEllen Ross, Leo Magrini, Susan T Gershman, Mark Kennedy, Anne Levine, Erica T Warner, Cheryl R Clark, William G Adams, Sharon Bak, Nicole Casanova, Katie Finn, Christine Gunn, Naomi Y Ko, Ariel Maschke, Katelyn Mullikin, Laura Ochoa, Christopher W Shanahan, Samantha Steil, Victoria Xiao, Howard J Cabral, Clara Chen, Carolyn Finney, Christine Lloyd-Travaglini, Stephanie Loo, Magnolia Contreras, Rachel A Freedman, Yoscairy Raymond, Deborah Toffler, Karen Burns White, Anne Marie Murphy, Carmen Benjamin, Beverly Moy, Caylin Marotta, Aileen Navarrete, Sanja Percac-Lima, Emma Whited, Amy J Wint, William F Harvey, Danielle Krzyszczyk, Amy M LeClair, Susan K Parsons, Feng Qing Wang, Serena Rajabiun

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 100 Cambridge St, Suite 1600, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. Jennifer.Haas@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 368 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA, 01605, USA.
³ Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies and the Department of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, 800 Washington St, Boston, MA, 02111, USA.
⁴ Women's Health Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Evans Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, 801 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.

Editorial

Jennifer S Haas et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;36(1):211-213.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06006-7. Epub 2020 Jul 27.

Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) Consortium Writing Group:
Ted A James, Susan McCauley, Ellen Ohrenberger, JoEllen Ross, Leo Magrini, Susan T Gershman, Mark Kennedy, Anne Levine, Erica T Warner, Cheryl R Clark, William G Adams, Sharon Bak, Nicole Casanova, Katie Finn, Christine Gunn, Naomi Y Ko, Ariel Maschke, Katelyn Mullikin, Laura Ochoa, Christopher W Shanahan, Samantha Steil, Victoria Xiao, Howard J Cabral, Clara Chen, Carolyn Finney, Christine Lloyd-Travaglini, Stephanie Loo, Magnolia Contreras, Rachel A Freedman, Yoscairy Raymond, Deborah Toffler, Karen Burns White, Anne Marie Murphy, Carmen Benjamin, Beverly Moy, Caylin Marotta, Aileen Navarrete, Sanja Percac-Lima, Emma Whited, Amy J Wint, William F Harvey, Danielle Krzyszczyk, Amy M LeClair, Susan K Parsons, Feng Qing Wang, Serena Rajabiun

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 100 Cambridge St, Suite 1600, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. Jennifer.Haas@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 368 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA, 01605, USA.
³ Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies and the Department of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, 800 Washington St, Boston, MA, 02111, USA.
⁴ Women's Health Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Evans Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, 801 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr. Haas and the Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) Consortium Writing Group reports grants from NIH, during the conduct of the study.

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