CSAC Member Highlight: Pat Lyons
“Instead of placing blame on individuals, it’s crucial to shine a light on social factors that impede marginalized communities’ ability to achieve and maintain good health.”
C3EN Announces Cycle 4 Pilot Awardees
Congratulations to Cycle 4 C3EN Pilot Awardees Chibuzor Abasilim, Allison J. Carroll, Eva Chang, Melissa Crane, Lindsay Sheehan, Marie Statler, and Anna Volerman! C3EN Pilot Awardees receive up to $60,000 in funding to obtain data to establish an NIH-funded program of...
Meet Joyce Chapman Community Grant Awardee John Martin
We expected age, sex, and BMI to be contributors [to back pain], but we found that the top 2 out of 1000+ variables were income and education. Now my research group focuses on how social determinants of health are related to spine disease and low back pain.
Humans of Chicago: Wayne Cauthen
Let’s judge our being one of the top cities in the world by how many people in our city are not helpless, how much of our population doesn’t need drastic help, and how many people have food within walking distance. If we could do that, I think we would be one of the top cities in the world.
C3EN Virtual Mental Health Town Hall discusses violence and barriers to mental health care in Chicago
“Mental health is health,” says C3EN Pilot Awardee Rachel Boutté. “There is no way to separate mental health from physical health because they’re connected in the same way that all of us have a brain that is connected to a body.”