Community Engagement Toolkits

Co-developed with AAMC member institutions and their community collaborators, these toolkits help organizations engage their communities in dialogue to identify actions to advance health and health care equity.

Are you at an organization using one of these toolkits? We want to hear from you! Contact us to tell us about your experience.

The Principles of Trustworthiness Toolkit

Learn step-by-step how your organization can demonstrate being worthy of the trust of your community with this refreshed toolkit of resources.

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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.

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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.

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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.