The Office of Community Engagement together with the Stanford Cancer Institute Office of Cancer Health Equity, co-sponsored by Stanford Spectrum Center for Clinical and Translational Research and Education, present the Health Equity Ambassador program this fall!
This professional development program will provide training in research and selected health equity topics to a cohort of community members each year. Goals:
1) Increasing and strengthening community partnerships;
2) Driving research that is responsive to community needs; and
3) Building research capacity in the community, particularly in the Bay Area and Central Valley.
If you are interested in learning more about this program, please email Cristina Mancera (cmancera@stanford.edu).
Who are Health Equity Ambassadors?
Health Equity Ambassadors are key community leaders, patient advocates, or representatives of community-based organizations working to improve health equity in under-resourced communities. Health Equity Ambassadors will be trained to build academic-community relationships, matching Stanford researchers with community partners vested in addressing target community needs to effect translational research endeavors that will address health equity disparities.
HEA Toolbox: What You Will Develop
You Will Develop Skills to/for:
- Community-engaged research training
- Critical skills for collaborating with research teams including cultural competency and research ethics (power disparities, informed consent, data ethics)
- Facilitate partnership agreements between researchers and community members
- Disseminatate methods (data storytelling)
- Networking and seeding research
HEA News
Coming soon!