Health Equity Ambassadors Program

The Health Equity Ambassador (HEA) Program is a community professional development program that provides training in research and selected health equity topics, delivered through a co-learning model, to a cohort of community members each year. Each cohort explores the impact of a pre-determined thematic focus on health outcomes in surrounding communities.

The goals of the HEA program are to:

Build community research capacity,
Facilitate partnerships between communities and Stanford,
Increase and strengthen community partnerships responsive to community needs related to health equity and income inequality, and
Drive research responsive to community needs

The first Ambassador cohort, focusing on climate change and health equity, received $6,000 to support a community-led research engagement project to seed research initiatives in their communities and raise awareness about best practices in community-engaged research and engagement activity.

Program Requirements

Community-Engaged Research Training

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Training session objectives:

Gain an understanding of the research process and how it can contribute to promoting health equity;
Develop skills in community-engaged research including community-university partnerships;
Develop knowledge of the impacts of selected topics on diverse health outcomes;
Share experiences of health outcomes in Ambassador communities

Includes CITI training, guest speakers, and develop plans for community-engaged research project

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Poster Presentation at Community Health Symposium

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Ambassadors will apply their communication and networking skills through poster presentations about their communities, the work their organizations do in these communities, and their plans and goals for implementing their community-engaged research project

See the this cohort’s symposium posters here!

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Project Implementation

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The program offers $6,000 for Ambassadors to support a community-led research engagement project to seed research initiatives in these communities and raise awareness about best practices in community-engaged research and engagement activity.

Projects should be implemented by the end of August.

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How to Apply

2024-2025 PROGRAM

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Application Period

Monday, July 15, 2024 – Friday, August 30, 2024

**Applications close at 5:00 PM Pacific on August 30**

Participation/Eligibility

We are recruiting anybody currently embedded within a community organization and whose work takes place in the catchment area of the Stanford Cancer Institute.

*We are unable to accept applications from current Stanford students, staff, or faculty.

Scope of Program

The 2024 thematic emphasis is: income inequality & health equity. See above for goals of the HEA program.

Application Assistance

Questions?

If you are a faculty researcher seeking training for your community partners, please send them the application link!
If you are a faculty researcher seeking training for your academic research team in community-engaged research, please visit the Stanford Medicine Office of Community Engagement Resource Page for recordings of past education offerings and additional resources.

For general HEA questions, please email Cristina Mancera, HEA Program Lead at cmancera@stanford.edu