Community engagement helps to bridge the gap between academic health institutions and the real world.
If you are doing research or designing programs that might directly impact people, your work could be community-engaged. Community engagement is an essential part of healthcare and research. Community engagement ensures that the perspectives, experiences, well-being, and needs of community members and patients are amplified when conducting research, promoting public health, or creating policy.
View this page for resources and best practices for paying community partners for their collaborative work on research projects.
View this page for opportunities and resources to help learners get involved with community engagement.
These community board resources are a comprehensive resource designed to support research teams in building, managing, and concluding a CAB.
Scroll down to see the full list of resources for researchers, learners and educators.
UCSF ASPIRE Project Recommendations
The Accelerating Systematic Stakeholder Patient, and Institution Research Engagement (ASPIRE) final recommendations aim to improve structures and processes for community-engaged research at UCSF
Featured Resource: AAMC's Principles of Trustworthiness
The Principles of Trustworthiness Toolkit is designed to help institutions earn their community's trust by demonstrating they are worthy of it. Published by the AAMC Center for Health Justice, the toolkit offers a structured, yet flexible approach to building genuine partnerships rooted in humility, accountability, and long-term commitment.
The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership
This Spectrum of Community Engagement charts a pathway to strengthen and transform partnerships. The spectrum can be used to describe and deepen community-academic collaborations.
Informed Consent Form Community Listening Sessions
The outcomes and recommendations we are sharing today are grounded in three in-depth listening sessions facilitated by the RAGE team with our community partners. In collaboration with the IRB, our community partners reviewed the informed consent form (ICF) template, a minimal-risk study example, and a greater-than-minimal-risk study example. Their feedback was thoughtfully synthesized into three areas: what is working well, opportunities for improvement, and cross-cutting themes across questions and topics.
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The outcomes and recommendations we are sharing today are grounded in three in-depth listening sessions facilitated by the RAGE team with our community partners.
This document provides a sample invoice template for UCSF researchers to use when compensating Community Advisory Board (CAB) members.
This document is provided as an example of a survey that research and project teams can use when recruiting potential Community Advisory Board (CAB) members.
This document is provided as an example survey for research and project teams to use when recruiting potential Community Advisory Board (CAB) members. It is intended to serve as a template and reference.
If you’re evaluating a single Community Advisory Board (CAB) meeting and not the overall experience, the goal is to capture immediate feedback on clarity, engagement, respect, and usefulness. You want questions that are quick, repeatable, and actionable.
This survey is provided as an example to help teams reflect on Community Advisory Board (CAB) members’ overall experiences at the end of your CAB. It is intended as a reference, and you are encouraged to adapt the questions to fit your goals.
This is the "After" section of the CTSI CAB Toolkit. This section describes how to close a Community Advisory Board (CAB). This includes sample evaluation questions.
This is the "During" Section of the CTSI CAB Toolkit. This section explains how to facilitate Community Advisory Board (CAB) Meetings.
This is the "Before" Section of the UCSF CTSI CAB Toolkit. This section explains how to conduct outreach and recruitment for Community Advisory Boards (CABs).
The UCSF CTSI Community Advisory Board Toolkit provides guidance on establishing more meaningful and lasting connections with the community through the formation of Community Advisory Boards (CABs).