Ecpn Symposium II: The 3 Cs of Successful Early Career Collaborations: Co-Investigating, Co-Authoring, and Consulting

(3-039) The 3 Cs of Successful Early Career Collaborations: Co-investigating, Co-authoring, and Consulting

Chairs: Kelly Rulison, PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Sarah Lindstrom Johnson, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Panel: Stephanie Lanza, PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, The Methodology Center,   Mildred Maldonado-Molina, PhD, University of Florida, Institute for Child Health Policy, David Wyrick, PhD, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Public Health Education,

Collaboration is critical for the success of early career prevention scientists. It allows us to work with people who have different skill sets, gain new perspectives, tackle interdisciplinary research questions, and work with more senior colleagues who can teach us the tricks of the trade. It also allows us to establish our independence by identifying other early-career colleagues with whom we might begin to establish long-term professional relationships. The most common and important forms of collaboration for early career prevention scientists are co-investigating, co-authoring, and consulting. Yet collaboration in any form is not without its challenges. Join us for a panel discussion about these challenges and learn strategies for overcoming them. In this session, successful mid-career prevention scientists will discuss their own collaboration experiences and provide insight into how to establish productive collaborations, how to find research partners in a new institution, and how to identify and say “no” to projects that are not a good fit.  Practical topics such as determining how to charge for time as well as navigating the differing priorities of senior and junior faculty will also be discussed.