With funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) in October 2003 convened the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions to take a leadership role in creating a more supportive culture and reward system for health professional faculty involved in community-based participatory research, service-learning and other forms of community-engaged scholarship.

In February 2005, the Commission released a report, "Linking Scholarship and Communities," that outlines a national strategy for closing the gap between the promise of health professional schools as community-engaged institutions and the reality of how faculty members are typically judged and rewarded. The report, available at www.ccph.info, contains detailed recommendations for action by health professional schools and their national associations that can support community-engaged scholarship and cites promising practices that illustrate their implementation.