Next C3EN Mental Health Town Hall February 28
February 28, 6-7:30PM: Join C3EN and West Side United at Lawndale Christian Health Center for a mental health town hall featuring guest speaker LaDawne Jenkins of Alive Faith Network – register at...
Happy New Year from C3EN!
Happy New Year from the Chicago Chronic Condition Equity Network! As we enter our third year as a center, we celebrate the process of sharing knowledge and working together as a diverse and growing body of researchers and community-based organizations.
Electronic Patient Portals Improve Mental Health Screening Efforts
C3EN researcher Neda Laiteerapong pioneers efforts to improve screening for mental health issues through online screening tools; new study in partnership with Melissa Duplantis, chief behavioral health officer of Chicago Family Health Centers, funded to screen for PTSD on Chicago’s south side
NIH Funds C3EN Research: Activity and Recreation in Communities for Health (ARCH)
C3EN is delighted to announce that Activity and Recreation in Communities for Health (ARCH), led by Brad Appelhans, Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at Rush University Medical Center and C3EN Investigator Development Core co-director, in partnership with Paris Thomas, executive director of Equal Hope, a Chicago not-for-profit organization focused on eliminating health inequities, has received funding from NIH to study a novel approach to reducing depressive symptoms and lowering cardiometabolic risk.
C3EN Team Member Highlight: Marshall Chin
There’s a variety of reasons why Asian Americans have been too invisible. Some of it is that the data are not collected or, or that granular data that divides Asians across different subgroups often are not collected. Some of it is being treated as the other, always being a perpetual foreigner, or even as the model minority myth—it’s another way of making invisible the heterogeneity within the Asian population.