At February Town Hall, community members agreed that researchers must take time to be present in the communities they are researching, build trust, and observe people in the environments in which they live.
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.
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.
How do we continue to address and involve the Latinx community, the African American community and also involve the immigrant populations, the migrant populations, the refugee populations, and the variety of Asian populations that exist in the city of Chicago and Illinois?
Congratulations to John “Jack” Flores on receiving a Joyce Chapman Community Grant for the project “Qualitative Analysis to Understand the Rise of Congenital Syphilis in Chicago, IL”!