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.
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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.