Community Engagement Toolkits

These toolkits help institutions engage their academic and local communities in dialogue to identify actions individuals or institutions can take to move communities toward health and health care equity.

If you have any questions or want to share your institution’s experience with the toolkits, please email healthjustice@aamc.org.

The Principles of Trustworthiness

Learn about how your organization can demonstrate being worthy of the trust of your community.

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Achieving Health Equity and Social Justice for Newly Arrived Immigrants in Arizona and Beyond

Learn more about the needs of and inequities faced by newly arrived immigrants.

A recent immigrant discussing healthcare in the U.S. versus her native country

Social Justice Behind and Beyond the Bars: Criminal Justice, Health, and Academic Medicine

Learn about the impact of mass incarceration on the health of individuals, families, and communities.

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Community Engagement, Precision Medicine, and Native Health

Learn about how to talk with diverse communities, including urban-dwelling Native Americans, about participating in medical research.

A Native American man talking about health care

Communities, Social Justice, and Teaching Hospitals

Learn about Baltimore residents’ perspectives on how medical students, doctors, and researchers can, should, and do respond to social injustice.