Pilot Awardee Sarah Sobotka is studying a parent-to-parent coaching program where experienced parents of ventilator-dependent children provide guidance to parents of children awaiting hospital discharge in partnership with the UIC Division of Specialized Care for Children
The more I learned about how the tobacco industry has targeted the African American community, the more I started to think about smoking as not just a health issue, but a social justice issue.
Our research on the Diabetes Prevention Program informed a policy document called the Diabetes Prevention Act of 2009. It was passed into law in the Affordable Care Act, which authorized the formation of the National Diabetes Prevention Program.
My dad’s family escaped the Nazis in the late 1930s, so it was understood that sitting on the sidelines wasn’t ever going to be an option.