2025/07/03 by Cathleen E. Willging, Elise Trott Jaramillo, Kimberly M Giardina +3 · 2 voices
Health Professions · #Health Policy Implementation Science #Mental Health and Patient Involvement #Community Health and Development
paper · doi:10.1080/00187259.2025.2519792
openalex publication_date 2025/07/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/14
Incorporating research evidence within child welfare systems can improve services and health equity for vulnerable youth. Bidirectional collaboration between researchers and system-level actors may foster evidence-informed policies and programs through cultural exchange. This anthropological analysis of longitudinal qualitative data from the Community-Academic Partnership for Translational Use of Research Evidence (CAPTURE) illuminates the complexities of cultural exchange involving a child welfare system, including capacity for research use, trust, communication, and power dynamics. Successful cultural exchange for catalyzing the use of research evidence requires a multilevel approach attentive to power structures, institutions, and community perspectives. Anthropology must play a central role in critiquing power within partnerships while exploring pragmatic and ethical ways to collaborate with influential entities to implement data-driven policies and programs to enhance health equity.