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.

• 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.

• Campus Compact

  Campus Compact’s mission is to support, engage, and challenge higher education to realize its public purpose. Colleges and universities that embrace their public purpose are best equipped to address the challenges facing our society.

• Cancer Center Outreach and Engagement Office

  The Community Outreach and Engagement Office builds relationships across Wisconsin, bringing local perspectives into cancer research and connecting communities with education, resources and research opportunities.

• Center for Advancing Population Science (CAPS)

  CAPS mission is to engage individuals and communities in collaborative partnerships for transformative research, education, and advocacy to reduce disparities, improve public health, and advance population science.

• 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.
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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.

• 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.

• 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.
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  Health Science and Medical Career Pathways

  MCW Health Science and Medical Career Pathway Programs are unique and offers access to many MCW departments and many partner with other institutions and organizations in the community.

• 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.

• MCW Community Reach

  MCW believes the only way to build a healthier world is to build it together. Our teams work in collaboration with hundreds of organizations to engage community members, and our programs are aimed at addressing the most pressing issues affecting health and equity in southeastern Wisconsin, as well as in communities across the state and around the globe.

• ThriveOn Collaboration

  The mission of the ThriveOn Collaboration is physically embodied in the restoration and redevelopment of the historic Gimbels-Schuster’s building on King Drive, at the nexus of three vital neighborhoods: Halyard Park, Harambee and Brewers Hill.