Last week, Health & Medicine’s Policy Director, Wesley Epplin, joined Illinois Public Media’s The 21st Show to discuss the critical need to protect Medicaid. In a conversation about the future of healthcare in Illinois, he highlighted the devastating consequences of proposed Medicaid cuts and...
Medicaid funding cuts could hit Illinois hard! In a recent full-length article for Crain’s Chicago Business, Health & Medicine’s Policy Director Wesley Epplin warns, “Increasingly, people who were covered by Medicaid would go without preventive care, end up sicker and in the emergency...
The health and well-being of millions of Illinois residents are under attack as the Trump administration and congressional Republicans push forward drastic Medicaid cuts. Health & Medicine’s Policy Director, Wesley Epplin, sheds light on this urgent issue in an op-ed published in The Chicago...
The 2024-2025 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows are dedicating their time to community projects and expanding their knowledge through literature. From novels and memoirs to scientific analyses and investigative journalism, these works reflect the Fellows’ commitment to health equity, social justice,...
Across the nation, states are beginning to develop multisector plans for aging to improve service coordination across state agencies and sectors to address the major demographic shifts that are happening as our society ages. Illinois Aging Together, which has rallied 188 organizational supporters,...
Each year, the Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program offers seed grants to Fellows for Life interested in beginning, sustaining, or building on innovative community projects. Fellows for Life commit to designing, implementing, and reporting on direct service-oriented projects with existing...
by Karol Dean, PhD, Ronisha Edwards-Elliott, MSW, and A. Gita Krishnaswamy, MEd, MPH Contributors: Mia Hayford, Mia Bonds, and Jessica Coffee A year has passed since the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action in college admissions, and its impacts on community health are becoming...