Community Partners

Many community-based organizations have partnered with the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) Community Engagement and Research Program over the years. Several civic organizations, clinics and other health service organizations, local businesses, schools, churches and youth agencies have joined with UC Davis investigators in research and educational ventures around academic/community health priorities. A partial listing of those organizations is found below.

• ACC Senior Services Center
  Project — Series of 4 "Understanding Aging and Memory Loss" workshops for the public with UC Davis researchers.
• Arden Arcade Rotary Club
  Project — Host for CTSC trainee presentation on advances in colon cancer treatment.
• Arthur A. Benjamin Health Professions High School
  Project — Host for presentations by CTSC trainees on brain tumor advances and on adolescent mental health.
• Her Health First
  Providing support to women in Sacramento County to achieve equitable health outcomes.
• Eskaton Senior Residences and Services
  Project - Host for presentation by CTSC trainee on bacterial risks for bed-ridden patients.
• Ethel Hart Senior Center
  Project - Host for a research project. The Sentinel Network asked community participants about their attitudes towards health research and provided a health assessment and referrals to community resources and health studies.
• Mexican Consulate
  Project - Host for a research project.  The Sentinel Network asked community participants about their attitudes towards health research and provided a health assessment and referrals to community resources and health studies.
• Oak Park Neighborhood Multiservice Center
  Project - Site for meetings of the CTSC Research and Education Community Advisory Board.
• Opening Doors Inc.
  Project — Partnership around health assessment study of recently arrived Iraqi refugees.
• Roberts Family Development Center
  Project - Partnership around community responses to diabetes and obesity issues with African American Leadership Coalition.
• Sacramento Bike Hikers
  Project - Host for CTSC trainee presentation on prevention of traumatic brain injuries.
• Sacramento Diversity/American Cancer Society-Diversity Coalition
  Project - Host for CTSC trainee presentations on stem cell research advances and on cancer research advances.
• Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services
  Project - Host for a research project. The Sentinel Network asked community participants about their attitudes towards health research and provided a health assessment and referrals to community resources and health studies.
• Turning Point Community Programs
  Project - Partnership around diet and physical activity issues in residential treatment centers
• UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center/Mercy San Juan Medical Center Prostate Cancer Support Group
  Project - Host for CTSC trainee presentations on advances in prostate cancer research
• Underground Books
  Project - Host for CTSC trainee presentations on peripheral artery disease and on cardiac emergency medicine
• Wellspring Women's Center
  Project - Partner in design of instruments for evaluation of women's health services and host for a research project. The Sentinel Network asked community participants about their attitudes towards health research and provided a health assessment and referrals to community resources and health studies.