Community Partners

Find Research Experts

• Linkage Service in Community Engagement & Health Policy
  Designed to help you find UCSF experts, identify potential research partners, and locate UCSF research or evaluation consultants.
• UCSF Profiles
  With a few clicks, the online research discovery and networking tool UCSF Profiles helps you find experts, potential collaborators, and networks at UCSF.

Get Expert Advice from UCSF Faculty and Senior Staff

Consultation Services in Community Engagement & Health Policy provide assistance to public agencies, community organizations and clinical sites in various areas.

• Community-Engagement & Health Policy Consultation Service
  Including:
  • collaborating with UCSF researchers,
  • designing and implementing community-based research studies,
  • developing an evaluation plan or dissemination plan,
  • supporting existing partnerships,
  • reviewing proposals,
  • identifying speakers for symposia, trainings, and events,
  • developing effective policy based on research evidence, and
  • determining cost or cost-effectiveness of a community-based intervention.

Get Training

Designed for community agencies and organizations.

• Research & Evaluation Training for Community-Based Organizations
  3-hour orientation "Introduction to Creating Your Own Evidence."
• Dissemination Training
  Free, hands-on training: Participants learn strategies and skills for successful communication of research findings to multiple audiences, including print and broadcast media, policymakers, partner organizations, and consumers.
• Certificate Program in Implementation and Dissemination Science
  Translating Evidence into Practice, Policy and Public Health. One-year, part-time program focused on applied methods of implementation and dissemination, particularly as they relate to developing more effective interventions.

Work with Researchers – Guides & Resource Manuals

Written by UCSF faculty and community members, these materials provide answers to key questions about collaborative research.

• Guides and Resources Manuals

Learn about the San Francisco Bay Health Improvement Project (SF Bay HIP)

New initiative to bring together UCSF researchers, local public health experts and community partners to improve the health of San Francisco Bay Area communities.

• SF HIP