“Preparing science communicators with skills to engage others across the science discovery ecosystem – from bench to bedside to the community or colleagues you need to reach”

1. Inclusive Science Communication Workshop

• Center equity in ways that are attentive to historical practices and identities
• Become more aware of positionality, biases and assumptions we hold
• Name sources of inequity that arise from unequal power relations
• Add perspectives historically missing from scientific knowledge production
• Centering the lived experience and concerns of marginalized communities

2. Dialogue Skills Training

• Engage with others who hold beliefs that may differ from your own
• Create open-minded exchange of ideas and beliefs on science issues
• Listen to better understand the hopes and concerns of others
• Center voices of historically-marginalized individuals
• Build mutual understanding, curiosity and humility

3. Public Deliberation Skills Training

• Reach decisions and take action on science issues
• Discuss science information while considering the consequences and trade-offs necessary to make personal and communal choices.
• Gather public concerns “from the community for the community”
• Consider the relevance and value of scientific findings
  

4. Stakeholder and Community Engagement Training

• Engage patients, community leaders/organization, health care providers as stakeholders
• Reduce polarization around divisive science issues
• Clarify potential harms and benefits of research to individuals and communities
• Develop community outreach to recruit stakeholders for basic research

5. Laboratory Research Scientist Communication Training

• Communicate with your patient community and other stakeholders as team members
• Competitive grant writing for broadly-engaged team science
• Support multi-stakeholder collaborative work
• Making your science and scientists into the community