Community Engagement Resources to Support Our Mission

Community Engagement at MCW and Beyond

Learn more on MCW departments, centers and institutes, in addition to partner organizations and others who support the advancement of the art and science of community engagement here at MCW and beyond.

• Center for Community Health and Intervention Research (CHAIR)

  CHAIR's mission is the development, evaluation, and dissemination of behavioral, social, and structural interventions to combat conditions of public health interest.

• Community Campus Partnerships for Health

  Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization that promotes health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.

• Campus Compact

  Campus Compact is a national coalition of 1,000+ colleges and universities committed to the public purposes of higher education. We build democracy through civic education and community development.

• The Role of Community-Based Participatory Research

  From the archive of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): Traditional health-related research may develop new treatments or ways to prevent disease but take years before benefiting the public. However, another type of research, community-based participatory research, promises to...

• Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeastern Wisconsin

  The CTSI is an innovative infrastructure to support and advance education, collaboration, and research in clinical and translational science.

• Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment

  The Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin endowment, stewarded by the Medical College of Wisconsin, is committed to improving the health of Wisconsin residents.
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  Center for Healthy Communities and Research

  The Center for Healthy Communities & Research's mission is to develop community-academic partnership that improve health.

• Institute for Health & Humanity

  The MCW Institute for Health & Humanity is focused on researching the root causes of health disparities in our communities, and advancing the best ideas to foster health equity throughout Wisconsin.

• Science Cafes: Clinical & Translational Science Institute

  The purpose of the Science Café program is to strengthen science literacy by engaging the community and translational scientists in an informal setting through bi-directional dialogue of current scientific and medical issues and their translational impact on our culture and society.