Community Partnership Program

The Community Partnership Program (CPP) launched in 2022 to elevate and coordinate the mission of health equity by supporting community engagement across all 14 divisions in the Department of Medicine. We collaborate with partners across the San Francisco Bay Area to improve the public health and health care resources in our communities in ways we cannot do alone. We aim for a broad range of collaboration and partnerships, to build mutual benefit and exchange across the pillars of clinical care, education, and research.

Our Mission

Our mission is to advance health and health equity in our local community through developing, coordinating, and sustaining partnerships between community organizations and the Department of Medicine and the broader School of Medicine.

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Awards

Dr. Christine Santiago
2025 California Young Physician Health Equity Leadership Award

  • This award was established in 2023 by Physicians for a Healthy California (PHC) to honor a young physician whose work has made a significant contribution to improving access and/or reducing disparities in health care, improving cultural competency and advocating for patients in California in alignment with PHC’s mission.

 

Dr. David Chang
2025 Award for Exceptional Contributions to Service-Learning

  • On behalf of the Stanford MD Program, this award recognizes a faculty member who has taught and mentored medical students in serving Stanford’s surrounding communities.

Guiding Principles

We seek partnerships that are bi-directional and built on trust, mutual respect, and authenticity. Our program strives to prioritize community needs, especially for those populations that are disproportionately impacted by health inequities locally. We aim to lower the barriers for our community partners to access Stanford resources and our efforts are anti-racist and culturally grounded

Engagement

We aim to build many paths to engagement throughout these pillars including direct clinical service in the community, providing health talks and educational sessions, supporting quality improvement programs and mentoring community-engaged learners.

Community Partners

We have sustained clinical community partnerships with a number of clinical sites. Several of these are through agreements between Stanford Medicine/Stanford Health Care that allow Stanford Faculty to serve as community-academic bridges.

Our Team

Our Community Partnership Council consists of existing Department of Medicine divisional leaders in community engagement and those interested in developing community partnership in their divisions and across our organization.
 

Partner with Us

We are a multidisciplinary team striving to advance local health equity by developing, coordinating and sustaining partnerships with community organizations and physician faculty in the Department of Medicine.