Office of Community Engagement
Resources for Students
We are dedicated to partnering across the local community, SPH, and Brown University to prepare students to be knowledgeable, collaborative, and empathic community leaders.
Resources for Students
We are dedicated to partnering across the local community, SPH, and Brown University to prepare students to be knowledgeable, collaborative, and empathic community leaders.
Experiential Learning
Through innovative experiential learning opportunities and real-world projects, we instill in our students an ethos of inclusive, equitable, and intentional community partnership.
Funding
Community-Engaged MPH Practicum Experiences
The Community-Engaged MPH Practicum Experience creates ongoing partnerships with community-based organizations that advance public health in Providence and Rhode Island. These partnerships surface and match community-identified projects to student skill, knowledge, and passion, and provide students with funding so that they may participate in robust applied practice experiences that fulfill the MPH practicum requirement of the MPH Program. We seek student participants that want to enhance local relationships and contribute to efforts to build trust over time, as well as positively impact health in the state as part of sustained and collaborative efforts.
View current opportunities and steps to apply
Community-Engaged Mini-Grant Funds
We are pleased to offer small grants to advance community-engaged learning opportunities between students and community partners in Providence and Rhode Island. These funds connect students to local events and learning opportunities to advance their skills in public health practice and collaboration. They also support the creation of resources for local community health efforts.
Funding and Teaching Opportunities at Brown and SPH
Learn about student funding and teaching opportunities from awards to conference travel to teaching assistantships.
Community-Engaged Courses
Undergraduate courses with a Community-Based Learning and Research (CBLR) designation engage students with community partners to investigate important social issues.
Finding CBLR Courses
CBLR Courses can be found by visiting Courses@Brown and selecting "Community-Based Learning and Research" from the curricular programs filter at the bottom of the site.
Service Opportunities
Explore opportunities referred by faculty, employers, and alumni.
Find out about local volunteer opportunities.
Check out the United Way of Rhode Island’s Volunteer Portal.
Partners Across Campus
A community of scholars, students, practitioners and community members who work together to build on community strengths and address community challenges.
The Community-Engaged Data & Evaluation Collaborative (CEDEC) leverages Brown University’s resources to address data, evaluation and research priorities identified and valued by nonprofit and public agencies in Rhode Island.
A statewide hub of research resources and services for clinical and translational investigators in Rhode Island.