Community & Partnerships
We aim to build and steward partnerships with community organizations and groups, public health units, and other health system and social services organizations – especially those serving equity-deserving communities – to promote better health outcomes.
This is about where people live their lives; bridging the gap between academic medicine and the experiences of the people who use, seek or need health care services.
We don’t build bridges to community alone; we do so through community-led partnerships with trusted organizations that have long histories of community-embedded work.
We appreciate that each community has their own specific conditions and needs that must be considered and addressed in deep collaboration with those groups and with purpose-fit approaches.
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DFCM News
Sep 29, 2026
For Brenda Chow, Director of Planning and Operations at the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM), a career that began in the laboratory has led her to the intersection of academia, healthcare and the people who make both possible.
Sep 24, 2026
Sep 21, 2026
We are pleased to recognize our faculty, staff and learners for their hard work and successes in clinical care, education, research, leadership and administration over the past year. Congratulations to all of the 2026 award winners!