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Conventional discipline-specific approaches are useful for the discovery and accumulation of knowledge on single causes of disease entities. Multidisciplinary collaborations can facilitate the identification of the causes of diseases at multiple levels, while interdisciplinary collaboration remains limited to transferring tools from one discipline to another, perhaps creating new disciplines (molecular epidemiology, etc). However, these forms of disciplinary collaboration fall short in capturing the complexity of chronic disease. In addition, these approaches lack sufficient power to generate knowledge that is translatable into implementable solutions, because of their failure to provide a holistic view limited their ability to capture the complexity of real-world problems. Transdisciplinary collaborations gained popularity in health research in the 1990\u200as, when disciplinary researchers began to develop integrated research frameworks that transcended discipline-specific methods. Using cancer research as an example, this position paper describes the nature of different disciplinary collaborations, reviews transdisciplinary research projects funded by the US National Cancer Institute, discusses frameworks to develop shared mental models in teams and to evaluate transdisciplinary collaboration, highlights the role of team science in successful transdisciplinary health research, and proposes future research to develop the science of team science.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3233\/jid-220011","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,14]],"date-time":"2022-10-14T11:33:37Z","timestamp":1665747217000},"page":"307-316","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Transdisciplinary Team Science in Health Research, Where Are We?"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Lin","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Cancer Research and Analytics, Cancer Care Alberta, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Canada"},{"name":"Departments of Oncology and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada"}]},{"given":"Brittany","family":"Shewchuk","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Cancer Research and Analytics, Cancer Care Alberta, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Canada"}]},{"given":"Ce","family":"Shang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology Division, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA"}]},{"given":"Jung Ae","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA"}]},{"given":"Sarah","family":"Gehlert","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Suzanne Dworak-Peck School, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA"}]}],"member":"179","reference":[{"issue":"10","key":"10.3233\/JID-220011_ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1231","DOI":"10.1093\/ntr\/ntp112","article-title":"Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers: research achievements and future implications","volume":"11","author":"Baker,","year":"2009","journal-title":"Nicotine Tobacco Research: Official Journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.3233\/JID-220011_ref2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"30","DOI":"10.1057\/s41599-017-0039-7","article-title":"Should we discipline interdisciplinarity?","volume":"3","author":"Bammer,","year":"2017","journal-title":"Palgrave Communications"},{"issue":"Suppl 2","key":"10.3233\/JID-220011_ref3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"19","DOI":"10.1177\/00333549141291S206","article-title":"The social determinants of health: it\u2019s time to consider the causes of the causes","volume":"129","author":"Braveman,","year":"2014","journal-title":"Public Health Rep"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.3233\/JID-220011_ref4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"83","DOI":"10.1111\/1467-8721.ep10773005","article-title":"Team performance and training in complex environments: recent fundings from applied research","volume":"11","author":"Cannon-Bowers,","year":"1998","journal-title":"Current Directions in Psychological Science"},{"key":"10.3233\/JID-220011_ref5","unstructured":"Cannon-Bowers, J. 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