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Reimagining the Culture of Academic Medicine

C-Change builds a legacy of culture change to foster faculty career advancement, and vitality.

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Dedicated to Creating a Lasting Impact

C-Change extends beyond current engagements to influence systemic change within academia as a whole.

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Cultivating Sustainable Change

C-Change has developed an innovative approach to action research that is evidence-based, practical, and transformative.

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Fostering Collaboration and Productivity

C-Change promotes collaborative environments, where each member can contribute optimally.

Cultures of Inclusive Excellence

C-Change believes diverse perspectives are essential to achieve academic excellence and address complex scientific problems.

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Partnering in Your Progress Toward Enduring Change

C-Change cultivates change agents who can drive ongoing transformation in their own institutions.

Featured News

November 15, 2024

C-Change featured in The Heller School Social Impact Report – Issue No. 14, Fall 2024

December 16, 2023

Physician, Heal Thyself – C-Change featured in Brandeis Magazine

What We Do

C-Change Research

C-Change is dedicated to enhancing the culture of academic medicine through research and action.

C-Change Surveys

C-Change Surveys serve as a cornerstone for understanding and enhancing the academic environment in multiple disciplines.

C-Change Practice Areas

C-Change offers assessment of the culture in academic health centers, as well as interventions and activities to foster positive change.

C-Change Mentoring & Leadership Institute

Mid-career faculty and leaders often lack mentoring and career planning. To address this, our Institute participants engage in a highly effective facilitated group peer mentoring process, avoiding the pitfalls of traditional one-on-one mentoring.

Recent Publications

Implementation and evaluation of a group peer mentoring and leadership development program for research faculty in academic medicine.

Pololi LH, Civian JT, Brimhall-Vargas M, Vasioliou V, Evans AT, Ninteau K, Cooper LA, Gibbs BT, Brennan RT. Implementation and evaluation of a group peer mentoring and leadership development program for research faculty in academic medicine. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2025 9: e63, 109.doi:10.1017/cts.2025.37.

Group peer mentoring is effective for different demographic groups of biomedical research faculty: a controlled trial

Pololi LH, Evans AT, Civian JT, McNamara T, Brennan RT. Group peer mentoring is effective for different demographic groups of biomedical research faculty: a controlled trial. PLoS ONE. 19(3): e0300043. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300043

Randomized controlled trial of a group peer mentoring model for U.S. academic medicine research faculty

Pololi LH, Evans AT, Brimhall-Vargas M, Civian JT, Cooper LA, Gibbs BK, Ninteau K, Vasiliou V, Brennan RT. Randomized controlled trial of a group peer mentoring model for U.S. academic medicine research faculty. J Clin Trans Sci. 2023;7(1):e174. doi:10.1017/cts.2023.589

Fostering Culture Change Since 2006

Research and Action on Collaborative Mentoring and Inclusive Excellence.

116

Organizations Collaborating
with C-Change

46,709

C-Change
Surveys Fielded

70%

C-Change Surveys
Average Response Rate