Stanford Vax Crew: A Model for Agile, Community-Centered Vaccination Campaigns

Stanford Vax Crew, one of the largest medical-student-led vaccination programs in the United States, serves as a case study of a successful community-university partnership that adapted its existing operations to enable COVID-19 vaccine distribution. It offers a model for agile, community-centered vaccination campaigns that harness diverse stakeholder strengths to promote vaccine access and uptake in underserved communities. This case study aims to outline the history and structure of the community-university partnership model developed through Stanford Vax Crew, describe key observations of factors that contributed to the scalability of the model, and provide experience-based recommendations for future community-university collaborations.