Wei-ting Chen, PhD, Dongmei Tan, MPH, Cristina Natali Mancera, MA, provide an introduction on community engaged research (CEnR), including the definition of CEnR, the benefits of CEnR, important principles of conducting CEnR, and supportive resources available for research teams at Stanford Medicine. The speakers focus on the role of the clinical research
coordinator or project manager in facilitating partnerships between study partners, study participants, and PI/investigators/study team(s).
About the Speakers:
Wei-ting Chen, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Office of Community
Engagement at Stanford Medicine, and Food for Health Equity Lab. Wei-ting has over 10 years of experience in developing academic-community partnerships for research and service learning projects, with a
specific emphasis on building health equity. She joined Stanford Medicine
in 2019 and previously worked at the University of California Cooperative
Extension System as a county-based faculty. Wei-ting received her PhD in
sociology from the Johns Hopkins University.
Dongmei Tan is the Community-Engaged Research Manager of Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI) at Stanford School of Medicine.
Under the Office of Community-Engaged Research (CEnR), Dongmei leads the efforts of mapping CEnR resources across campus, building partnership with other offices and community partners, providing technical assistance to researcher and partners, and developing CEnR related trainings and toolkits. Dongmei joined Stanford in May 2022 from the San Francisco Department of Public Health where she had worked since 2015. She has extensive experience in community engagement, health education and management of large health programs including CDC Health Disparities grants and the SF Soda Tax community grants. She also has an enthusiasm for social justice and health equity work.
Cristina Natalí Mancera, M.A., is the Community Engagement Capacity Building Program Manager, Office of Community Engagement at Stanford
Medicine. Cristina leads professional development programming to build capacity for community-academic research partnerships. She joined Stanford Medicine in October 2022 and previously lectured in Kinesiology at California State University, Los Angeles, highlighting community-engaged research in STEM topics, historical contexts of distrust, cultural competencies, and the real possibilities of actionable change.