Webinar Series

The Currency of Collaboration: Exploring Community Partner Payments

April 11, 2024

Melissa Gee is the Operations Manager with Supply Chain Management at University of California San Francisco.

Explore the intricacies of community partner payments using the presentation below, 'Defining Community Partner Payments.' Delve into the essentials of supplier setup, documentation, and streamline the process with clear instructions on requesting payments for community partners and donations. Access valuable resources and learn how to navigate paying community partners.  

How to Apply Promising Practices to Elevate Youth Voice & Engagement through Advisory Boards

February 29, 2024

Precious Ogbonna, YMCA Youth Development Director is the Associate Teen Director for the Buchanan YMCA. She has worked in youth development for the YMCA of San Francisco for the past nine years. She has been helping youth and teens explore the concepts of civic engagement, workforce development, and health equity.

Anda Kuo, Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, helped to establish the cross-bay UCSF Center for Child and Community Health. She currently serve as the Department's Director of Health Equity and Community Engagement and senior advisor for the UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN).

Megie Okumura, is dual-board certified in General Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. She is aimed at studying and formulating interventions that will address barriers and facilitators to chronic illness care for children with special health care needs as they transition from the pediatric to adult health care setting.

Don't Dis-Dissemination: Strategies for Effective Community Collaboration

December 05, 2023

Brandi Gates-Burgess, Lactation Consultant at Highland Hospital, Community Researcher and Community Engagement Specialist for the MILK Research Lab, Community Advisory Board member for the UCSF Preterm Birth Initiative, Co-chair for The Breastfeeding Cultural Outreach Taskforce (BCOT), and founder of Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services. 

Dr. Brittany Chambers-Butcher, tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Ecology at UC Davis. She is a community health scientist whose program of research merges critical and public health theories to partner with Black women and birthing people to better understand, operationalize and dismantle racism.

In this webinar, Brandi Gates-Burgess and Dr. Brittany Chambers-Butcher delve into the often-forgotten element of research dissemination, addressing the common issue where communities remain in the dark about the outcomes of their participation in research endeavors, and providing insights for a more informed and engaged community.

It's More than the Science! The underappreciated aspects of grant writing, focusing on strategy, salesmanship, and formatting

October 12, 2023

Anusha M. Vable is an Associate Professor, Social Epidemiologist, and the director of VabLab, a large research team at UCSF that focuses on identifying and advocating for structural solutions to health inequities.

Our first webinar "It's More than the Science! The underappreciated aspects of grant writing, focusing on strategy, salesmanship, and formatting" Presented by Dr. Anusha Vable.  In this webinar, Dr. Vable delved into the underappreciated aspects of grant writing, focusing on strategy, salesmanship, and formatting – elements that are often overlooked but play a crucial role in securing National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for your research and initiatives.