Research Impact Partners

This searchable database provides a list of organizations that support research impact work and includes potential partners for your broadening participation, evaluation, and outreach efforts. Use the drop-down menus at the left to filter the list of organizations by audience, services, types, or umbrella organization. 

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Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials

The Center hosts a variety of education and outreach initiatives that can be leveraged in research proposals, e.g., the K-5 Research Experiences for Teachers program, Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, First Year Undergraduate Research Program: FUSE, Industrial Mentorship program for Graduate Students, Artist in Residence program, afterschool STEM clubs at local schools, and K-12 STEM outreach to the Texas School for the Deaf and Texas School for the Blind.

Division of General Internal Medicine

Division of General Internal Medicine faculty members are experts in comprehensive primary care, coordination of specialty and primary care including transitions of care from the hospital to the clinic, complex organ disease, and understanding and addressing the impact of social drivers of health. Faculty expertise is wide-ranging, including scholarship on medical education, addiction, LGBTQ+ health, HIV care and prevention, healthcare for the homeless, and QI in primary care. The division’s faculty members provide education and clinical care across multiple sites including CommUnityCare Health Centers, Central Health, the VA, Vivent Health (an HIV primary care clinic) and UT Health Austin.

Health Transformation Research Institute

This team supports training for Dell Med researchers and learners conducting translational investigation, as well as the development of an integrated learning health system in which research is embedded in, drives and reinforces excellence in clinical, educational and community-focused missions.

Saffron Trust

Saffron Trust is working to break the cycle of generational poverty caused by system inequality to strengthen the community. This is accomplished by helping women find the stability they need to survive, and the education and resources that they and their children need to thrive. Saffron Trusts partners with nonprofits, community organizations, and businesses, and serving as a central point of contact and advocacy for women in need of support. Saffron Trust builds trust-based partnerships that last for life with the goal of helping women thrive long-term by connecting them with immediate needs such as food, shelter, and healthcare, but also with resources for longer-term education, employment, and mental and emotional health.