The global age-friendly cities and communities (AFCC) movement has centered on the involvement of the public sector, calling on high-ranking authorities to commit to improving the built, social, and service environments of their localities. This interpretive review aimed to advance understanding of the ways in which the public sector is involved in AFCC efforts. Based on emergent themes from peer-reviewed articles from the United States and Canada published since 2010, we derived a two-dimensional framework for conceptualizing variability in public sector involvement, encompassing the internal/external (a) locus of responsibility for cross-sector change and (b) target for cross-sector change. We discuss implications for research, policy, practice, and further knowledge development in AFCC implementation.

BACKGROUND: Disparities in the health of Indigenous people and in the health of rural populations are well described. University Departments of Rural Health (UDRHs) in Australia are federally funded under a program to address ongoing challenges with health workforce distribution for rural and remote areas. They have a significant role in research in regional, rural and remote areas, including research related to Indigenous health. However, a comprehensive analysis of their contributions to original Indigenous health related to Indigenous health is lacking.
OBJECTIVE: This study examines the contributions of UDRHs to Indigenous issues through analysis of publications of UDRHs focused on Indigenous health during the period 2010-2021.
METHODS: This paper examines a database of UDRH Indigenous-related publications from 2010 to 2021.
RESULTS: A total of 493 publications to which UDRHs contributed were analysed, including 354 original research articles. Health services research was the most common category, followed by epidemiology and papers exploring Indigenous culture and health. While health services research substantially increased over the period, the numbers of original research papers specifically focused on Indigenous workforce issues, whether related to Indigenous people, students or existing workforce was relatively small.
CONCLUSIONS: This broad overview shows the nature and trends in Indigenous health research by UDRHs and makes evident a substantial contribution to Indigenous health research, reflecting their commitment to improving the health and well-being of Indigenous communities.
CONCLUSIONS: The analysis can help direct future efforts, and future analyses should delve deeper into the impact of this research and further engage Indigenous researchers.

BACKGROUND: Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) are increasing dramatically among children and adolescents. Crisis support is intended to provide immediate mental health care, risk mitigation, and intervention for those experiencing SITBs and acute mental health distress. Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) have emerged as accessible and effective alternatives to in-person care; however, most do not provide crisis support or ongoing care for children and adolescents with SITBs.
OBJECTIVE: To inform the development of digital crisis support and mental health care for children and adolescents presenting with SITBs, this study aims to (1) characterize children and adolescents with SITBs who participate in a digital crisis response service, (2) compare anxiety and depressive symptoms of children and adolescents presenting with SITBs versus those without SITBs throughout care, and (3) suggest future steps for the implementation of digital crisis support and mental health care for children and adolescents presenting with SITBs.
METHODS: This retrospective study was conducted using data from children and adolescents (aged 1-17 y; N=2161) involved in a pediatric collaborative care DMHI. SITB prevalence was assessed during each live session. For children and adolescents who exhibited SITBs during live sessions, a rapid crisis support team provided evidence-based crisis support services. Assessments were completed approximately once a month to measure anxiety and depressive symptom severity. Demographics, mental health symptoms, and change in the mental health symptoms of children and adolescents presenting with SITBs (group with SITBs) were compared to those of children and adolescents with no SITBs (group without SITBs).
RESULTS: Compared to the group without SITBs (1977/2161, 91.49%), the group with SITBs (184/2161, 8.51%) was mostly made up of adolescents (107/184, 58.2%) and female children and adolescents (118/184, 64.1%). At baseline, compared to the group without SITBs, the group with SITBs had more severe anxiety and depressive symptoms. From before to after mental health care with the DMHI, the 2 groups did not differ in the rate of children and adolescents with anxiety symptom improvement (group with SITBs: 54/70, 77% vs group without SITBs: 367/440, 83.4%; χ21=1.2; P=.32) as well as depressive symptom improvement (group with SITBs: 58/72, 81% vs group without SITBs: 255/313, 81.5%; χ21=0; P=.99). The 2 groups also did not differ in the amount of change in symptom severity during care with the DMHI for anxiety (t80.20=1.37; P=.28) and depressive (t83.75=-0.08; P=.99) symptoms.
CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates that participation in a collaborative care DMHI is associated with improved mental health outcomes in children and adolescents experiencing SITBs. These results provide preliminary insights for the use of pediatric DMHIs in crisis support and mental health care for children and adolescents presenting with SITBs, thereby addressing the public health issue of acute mental health crisis in children and adolescents.

BACKGROUND: Addressing Indigenous food security and food sovereignty calls for community-driven strategies to improve access to and availability of traditional and local food. Participatory approaches that integrate Indigenous leadership have supported successful program implementation. Learning Circles: Local Healthy Food to School is a participatory program that convenes a range of stakeholders including food producers, educators and Knowledge Keepers to plan, implement and monitor local food system action. Pilot work (2014-2015) in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia (BC), showed promising results of the Learning Circles (LC) approach in enhancing local and traditional food access, knowledge and skills among youth and adolescents. The objective of the current evaluation was therefore to examine the process of scaling-up the LC vertically within the Haida Nation; and horizontally across three diverse First Nations contexts: Gitxsan Nation, Hazelton /Upper Skeena, BC; Ministikwan Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan; and Black River First Nation, Manitoba between 2016 and 2019.
METHODS: An implementation science framework, Foster-Fishman and Watson\'s (2012) ABLe Change Framework, was used to understand the LC as a participatory approach to facilitate community capacity building to strengthen local food systems. Interviews (n = 52), meeting summaries (n = 44) and tracking sheets (n = 39) were thematically analyzed.
RESULTS: The LC facilitated a collaborative process to: (1) build on strengths and explore ways to increase readiness and capacity to reclaim traditional and local food systems; (2) strengthen connections to land, traditional knowledge and ways of life; (3) foster community-level action and multi-sector partnerships; (4) drive actions towards decolonization through revitalization of traditional foods; (5) improve availability of and appreciation for local healthy and traditional foods in school communities; and (6) promote holistic wellness through steps towards food sovereignty and food security. Scale-up within Haida Gwaii supported a growing, robust local and traditional food system and enhanced Haida leadership. The approach worked well in other First Nations contexts, though baseline capacity and the presence of champions were enabling factors.
CONCLUSIONS: Findings highlight LC as a participatory approach to build capacity and support iterative planning-to-action in community food systems. Identified strengths and challenges support opportunities to expand, adopt and modify the LC approach in other Indigenous communities with diverse food systems.

OBJECTIVE: Continuous surgical developments, growing awareness of patient representatives and limited health-care resources are pushing for innovative approaches to ensure equal high-quality pediatric surgical care. We aimed to describe early experiences and assess surgical safety of a novel nationwide pediatric surgery collaborative initiative.
METHODS: In 2021, general pediatric surgeons representing all five independent university hospitals performing neonatal surgery in Finland initiated national collaboration, the Finnish pediatric surgery hub (FPSH), for sharing of surgical expertise and collective learning. For each case addressed by FPSH, place of care and surgical team were decided individually, and when deemed necessary, operations were performed in cooperation. Operations performed during 2021-2023 and associated early (<30 days) postoperative complications were analyzed according to Clavien-Madadi classification.
RESULTS: Of the total 40 surgeries managed co-operatively by FPSH, 30 (75%) took place in local university hospitals and 10 in Helsinki University Hospital. There were 34 (85%) elective and 6 urgent cases, which were operated within median 1 (range, 1-3) days. Most frequent underlying diagnoses included anorectal malformations, esophageal atresia and Hirschsprung disease. Overall, 12 (30%) had any early postoperative complications, all Clavien-Madadi grade IIIB or lower, and five patients (13%) were reoperated. Rate or grade of complications was not associated with place of care. In addition to regular virtual case meetings, national care protocols and research projects were introduced.
CONCLUSIONS: These preliminary findings suggest that our national collaborative initiative, FPSH, not only provided practical and safe framework for sharing of surgical expertise but also for collective learning.
METHODS: III.

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The Africa Capacity-Building Initiative is a Royal Society programme funded by the former UK Department for International Development to develop collaborative research between scientists in sub-Saharan Africa and the UK. Initially, four institutions were involved in the Chem4Energy consortium: Cardiff University in the UK and three African partners, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, the University of Namibia and the University of Botswana, soon also including the Botswana International University of Science and Technology. The Chem4Energy research programme focused on \'New materials for a sustainable energy future: linking computation with experiment\', aiming to deploy the synergy between state-of-the-art computational and experimental techniques to design and optimize new catalysts and semiconductor materials for renewable energy applications, based on materials that are abundant and readily available in African countries. The Chem4Energy consortium has achieved ambitious research goals, graduated seven PhD students and delivered a high-quality cross-disciplinary training programme in materials science and simulation techniques relevant to renewable energy applications. Since 2021, the extended consortium, including North-West University and the Centre for High-Performance Computing in South Africa, has remained active through an annual Chem4Energy conference series, with the sixth meeting taking place in Namibia in April 2025.

For many disabled people, violence can become an unwanted, yet ordinary part of everyday life. Often, these crimes are attributed to understandings of disabled people as vulnerable and largely, passive victims. Attending to the aims of this special issue, this paper aims to dismantle these stereotypes and attend to the unique ways that disabled people can resist and respond to hate crime through creative and collaborative research practices. Building upon this, I argue that there is a pressing need for hate studies researchers to work \"with\" and not \"on\" those who have experienced targeted violence. Working in this way builds upon long-standing efforts of disabled activists and disabilities studies researchers to challenge reductive research practices by working in more collective and inclusive ways. To demonstrate this, I reflect upon a project working in partnership with disabled people to create a disability hate crime toolkit. The toolkit, now published, shares accessible and informative resources that can be used to raise awareness about disability hate crime. While the focus of this paper is disability, I consider methods of collaboration, co-production and participation that can be drawn upon by researchers to respond to hate crime and interpersonal violence more broadly.

Medical librarians work collaboratively across all units and missions of academic medical centers. One area where librarians can provide key expertise is in the building and maintenance of Research Information Management Systems (RIMS). At Penn State, the RIMS implementation team has included a medical librarian, research administrators and marketing staff from the College of Medicine (CoM) since its inception in 2016. As our peer institutions implemented or expanded their own RIMS systems, the CoM team has responded to their questions regarding details about the Penn State RIMS instance. The goal of this commentary is to describe how the CoM team has worked collaboratively within Penn State to address questions related to research output, with special emphasis on details pertaining to questions from other institutions.

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