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.

Tips for consenting non-English participants into your research studies.

This document provides guidelines for creating Memoranda of Understanding.

The Impacting Policy by Accelerating Translation (IMPACT) Program provides UCSF faculty and staff with resources and training in collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders to accelerate the adoption of evidence-informed policies in healthcare, government, industry, and other sectors.

This guide is an introduction to the emerging fields of effectiveness research, diffusion research, dissemination research and implementation sciences.

The Accelerating Systematic Stakeholder Patient, and Institution Research Engagement (ASPIRE) final recommendations aim to improve structures and processes for community-engaged research at UCSF
 

This transformative research toolkit refers to a wide range of processes where people center their lived experience and visions for social transformation, lead a process that systematically builds on this knowledge through investigation and learning rooted in their own ways of knowing, and take action to influence public narratives, policies, and power dynamics.

This program focuses on implementing a UCSF-wide process improvement to promote recruitment best practices and standard work in our staff hiring and promotions.

This guide provides instructions for paying UCSF community partners.

The Youth Research Advisory Council (YRAC) is a group of young people who come together in partnership with the YMCA to advise UCSF researchers about our health needs and the needs of our communities.

This featured resource, the Lived Experience Advisory Board (LEAB) Toolkit offers guidance for forming and sustaining meaningful, authentic, and effective partnerships between organizations and lived experts. is the result of a two-year partnership between UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative researchers and a group of 10 people with lived expertise.

The National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health seeks partnerships with the community to strengthen all its initiatives and to empower women and girls as partners in health. UCSF is advancing bold strategies to transform our understanding of women’s health and illness: improving quality and innovation, enhancing compassion and coordination, and ensuring leadership and sustainable progress in the field.