EDUCATION & TRAININGS

Providing Learning Opportunities for Community Engagement & Health Research

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SEMINARS, TRAININGS, & COURSES

Knowledge and skill-based community engagement workshops and trainings for faculty, staff, trainees, students, and community partners. For prior trainings/videos please click here

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LABS

  • Grant Writing
  • Validated Instruments
  • Articles (CE models, approaches, metrics)
  • Partnership Agreements

HEALTH AMBASSADOR PROGRAM

The Health Ambassador Program at Stanford Medicine Office of Community Engagement is a community-oriented program that provides community-engaged research training to build capacity to partner with academic researchers and drive research responsive to community needs more

Questions? Email: Cristina Mancera, MA | Program Lead

PATIENT ADVOCATE TRAINING IN HEALTH SCIENCES (PATHS) PROGRAM

The Patient Advocate Training in Health Sciences Program (PATHS) at Stanford Medicine is a FREE educational program to train patient advocates in research methods and related topics. The ultimate goal of the PATHS program is for patient advocates to take an active role in research.

Questions? Email: Cristina Mancera, MA | Program Lead

GRADUATE COURSE

CHPR 227: The Science of Community Engagement in Health Research (EPI 272), Winter Quarter

The Science of Community Engagement in Health Research course will focus on how community engagement principles enhance diverse health research and help address health disparities. Students will learn key history, frameworks, methodologies, and evaluation tools, including CBPR and strategies across the translational spectrum. The course offers practical experience developing engagement plans, examines real-world challenges and benefits of community partnerships, and includes lectures, presentations, discussions, and group activities. Designed for students across clinical, community health, policy, epidemiology, prevention, and environmental health fields, it emphasizes interdisciplinary and innovative community-engaged research. This course has been designated as a Cardinal Course by the Haas Center for Public Service. Cardinal Courses apply classroom knowledge to social and environmental challenges through reciprocal community partnerships. Interested undergraduate students can apply the units earned in this course to the Cardinal Service Notation more

EPI 282: Community-Based Participatory Research for Health-Spring Quarter 2027

The Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) for Health course will focus on the theory, practice, assessment tools, and empirical best practices of CBPR. Via study of the literature, case studies, presentations by community-academic partners, interactive student-led presentations and guided exercises, and self-reflection on our own research questions and inquiry, participants will gain an appreciation of CBPR advantages and challenges, as well as the skills necessary for developing and/or effectively participating in CBPR projects more