Community Engagement Mission Pillar

Vision: Optimize health through community partnerships

UCLA community at the Pride parade

Strategic Goals

1) Partner with the community to improve health through solutions that address social, cultural and biological determinants.

Example tactic: Creating a dedicated Research Theme in Health Equity & Translational Social Science

2) Develop a comprehensive and diverse health care workforce to serve the community.

Example tactics:
- Partnering with the Charles R. Drew University to develop leaders who will advance medical practice and knowledge in underserved areas in the United States and abroad.
- Offering trainees opportunities to learn in new and diverse settings through the DGSOM Global Health Program.

3) Create innovative health care delivery models that maintain financial stability while serving all members of our community.

Example tactic: Partnering with Venice Family Clinic and Los Angeles County to provide medical care at temporary shelters during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Progress Spotlights

UCLA community members at a health equity event

HEALTH EQUITY

Addressing health equity concerns related to COVID-19 and creating the seventh interdisciplinary health equity research theme.

Community health event

COMMUNITY HEALTH

Building on community health programs in the CTSI and in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services.

UCLA Harbor Medical Center

AFFILIATE PROGRAMS

Systematically reviewing, standardizing and expanding affiliate programs.

Members of project search

PROJECT SEARCH

Connecting adults with development disabilities to skill-building hospital jobs.

Venice Family Clinic volunteers

HOMELESS HEALTH

Partnering with Venice Family Clinic and Los Angeles County to provide medical care at temporary shelters.

Care Harbor community health event

CARE HARBOR

Providing a free volunteer-based clinic for physical, dental and vision care.