Examples of Community & Stakeholder Engagement Studios

• Community and Stakeholder Engagement Studio for Gun Violence Prevention

  

  Memorial Hermann Hospital and UTHealth Houston Center for Health Equity collaboratively developed a CSES for the NIH-funded Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program (HVIP) in Houston, Texas. The Houston HVIP at Memorial Hermann Hospital – Texas Medical Center aims to break the cycle of violence through intervention, care, follow-up care, and attention to social determinants of health.

  Principal investigators from the HVIP, Alexander Testa, PhD, and Sandra McKay, MD, utilize the Center for Health Equity’s CSES to solicit community engagement around program design and implementation. 

• Community and Stakeholder Engagement Studio for Food Is Medicine

  

  The Center for Health Equity developed a Community Advisory Group (CAG) to inform the development, implementation, and evaluation of Food is Medicine interventions. The group, consisting of mothers who have participated in produce prescription programs, provided feedback on effective food prescription programs and through discussion on supports and barriers to eating healthy, including SNAP and WIC participation. The CAG launched in March 2024 and continued through December 2024, meeting four times to inform the development of produce prescription type of interventions.

  You can read more about the program here.

  To learn more about the services offered by the Center for Health Equity and how to integrate these tools into your research and studies, reach out to the Center via email at [email protected].