The executive summary describes the publication as a primer that “can serve as a guide for understanding the principles of community engagement for those who are developing or implementing a community engagement plan, or it can be a resource for students or faculty.”
This CES Collaborative Annotated Bibliography is intended to serve as an aid in reviewing the issues related to promoting community engagement and community-engaged scholarship at health professional schools. Documents were selected based on those works that were found to be of use to the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions in preparing their report, and on the experience of CCPH staff in researching issues related to community-engaged scholarship The listing of citations included here provide a sample of the important works published to date. Many more works could be included here, and the list is expected to expand as the work of the Collaborative evolves. For additional references on community-engaged scholarship and related issues, please refer to the references section of the report of the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions, and in the Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit.
This report provides a table of values, strategies, and outcomes for investigators who want to engage communities in their research.
Metropolitan Universities Journal Issue 20.2, August 2009, features 9 articles from the Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative, an initiative of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) supported by a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in the US Department of Education. Two articles were made available in PDF format:
Over the past decade, a steady stream of national organizations have been recommending the community engagement of health professional schools as an essential strategy for improving health professional education, achieving a diverse health workforce, increasing access to health care, and eliminating health disparities. Community engagement is now widely viewed as fundamental to the mission and purpose of health professional schools.