Communicating to Engage: An Improvisational Theater-Based Communication Training Designed to Support Community–Academic Partnership Development

Problem The potential for community-engaged research to address health inequity requires deliberate effort to create trusting and equitable community–academic partnerships. A lack of evidence-based opportunities for cultivating such partnerships remains a barrier. Approach In 2017 and 2018, the authors designed, facilitated, and evaluated a mixed stakeholder training, Communicating to Engage, at 2 urban academic medical centers involved in the...