Partner With Us
Welcome! The mission of the Department of Medicine’s Community Partnership Program (DoM CPP) 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.
Our program launched in 2022 to elevate and coordinate the mission of health equity by supporting community engagement across all divisions of the Department of Medicine. It builds off the passion of diverse faculty endeavors in this space, and five years of foundational efforts within the Primary Care and Population Health division to develop intentional, respectful and sustainable partnerships with our local community health centers. 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.
We believe that building bridges between our academic institution and local community health organizations is key to health equity. We work in close alliance with our DoM’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team to ensure efforts to promote equity are reflected both internally and externally.
We seek to create many paths to community engagement. Whether you are a community member, a community-based organization, a current faculty, staff or trainee looking to collaborate, we invite you to explore with us how we can best work together to build mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources to improve local community health and health equity.
Sincerely,
Christine Santiago MD, MPH
Associate Chair of Medicine for Community Partnership
Alexandria Blacker, PhD, MPH
Director, Department of Medicine Community Partnership Program
Community Support Funds
The Department of Medicine Community Partnership Program is able to provide small Community Support funds ($1,000–$5,000) to community partner organization members and adjunct/affiliate faculty to support activities that further build our community-academic bridges.
These funds can be used as either: individual support for the partner or adjunct/affiliate faculty; or a CBO in collaboration with a DoM faculty member.
We aim to support community partners to engage in activities that:
- Build organizational capacity
- Support professional development (i.e. attending conferences, submitting abstracts)
- Reduce financial barriers to participating in educational programs offered by Stanford Medicine (i.e. quality improvement courses, physician wellness program
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Divisional Faculty Support
The Department of Medicine Community Partnership Program offers a variety of support mechanisms for department faculty interested in community partnerships.
- Act as a broker between physician faculty and community partners
- Provide links to funding opportunities and community events
- Build collaborations across Stanford Medicine and the broader university
- Facilitate the development of partnership agreements for established community partnerships
- Host monthly Community Partnership Program Council meetings to create a community of practice among community-engaged faculty
- Support the creation of divisional community partnership taskforces
- Foster bi-directional educational opportunities with learners
- Provider thought partnership on grants, quality improvement projects, conferences and community-engaged research efforts
- Team presentations with an overview of the Community Partnership Program and share opportunities to get involved
Department of Medicine faculty interested in engaging with the Community Partnership Program should submit a message of interest via the following form.