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:
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
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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