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.
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ASPIRE Recommendations
Accelerating Systematic Stakeholder Patient and Institution Research Engagement (ASPIRE) final recommendations to improve processes and structures at UCSF.
Principles of Trustworthiness
Key accountability principles of trust building to create lasting and genuine partnerships.
The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership
The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership charts a pathway to strengthen and transform our local democracies.