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Capacity Building Project

Background

Our Social Connectedness project (informed by a Photovoice research methodology), wherein subjects document their psychological wellbeing photographically, shows the academic environment is especially problematic for historically marginalized graduate and professional students (HMGPS), which includes first-generation college students, non-binary, racial/ethnic minority, disabled, LGBTQ+, rural background, and low-income students. 

 

The long-term objective of this award is to increase the capacity of graduate students, faculty, staff, on- and off-campus healthcare providers, and university administrators to collaborate in patient centered outcomes research and/or comparative effectiveness research (PCOR/CER) that effectively addresses the mental health needs of underrepresented graduate students and improves health outcomes among this patient population. 


We propose three aims to meet our long-term objective: 

  1. Engage key stakeholders (graduate student patients, healthcare providers, academic researchers, and university administrators) in a collaborative governance structure and a mental health task force (MHT).
  2. Build graduate student patients, healthcare provider, administrator, and researcher capacity to engage in PCOR/CER through co-learning activities focused on underrepresented graduate student mental health and patient-centered and partnered research. 
  3. Conduct deliberative democracy forums to prioritize research on the mental health needs of underrepresented graduate students and convene research workgroups to prepare for future PCOR/CER.


This project is a collaboration between the University of California, Riverside (UCR) School of Medicine, University of California Graduate and Professional Council (UCGPC), UCR Health, and Solid Ground Wellness in Recovery.


Leadership team

  • Academic project leader, Evelyn Vázquez, PhD, evelyn.moralesvazquez@medsch.ucr.edu 
  • Community engagement project lead, Ann Cheney, PhD, ann.cheney@medsch.ucr.edu 
  • Healthcare leader, Lisa Molina, lmolina@solidgroundwellness.com
    Mental health taskforce leader, Kimberley Lakes, PhD, kimberley.lakes@medsch.ucr.edu 
  • Graduate student project leader, Manasi Rajadhyaksha, MA, mraja004@ucr.edu

Funding:

This project received a two-year funding award from the Eugene Washington Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Engagement Awards program.


PCORI Website

Our co-learning activities

Leadership Plan

Co-learning activities

Project Timeline

This figure outlines our project leadership structure and engagement plan. 

Project Timeline

Co-learning activities

Project Timeline

The above timeline breaks down the engagement award activities by the three aims of the proposed project, which are nestled between the pre-award work that began in 2020 to 2021 with the Social Connectedness and Healing the Academy projects and the dissemination activities that will occur throughout the award period.

Co-learning activities

Co-learning activities

Co-learning activities

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