Health & Medicine’s Group Award recognizes that the sum of the whole is often greater than the individual parts and honors an organization or coalition that supports or enhances community self-determination and independence, focuses its work on any of the determinants of health, and has had an...
Health & Medicine’s Emerging Leader Award recognizes leaders with fewer than 15 years of experience who are currently involved in community-based work with broadly defined public health implications. Ezekiel Richardson, one of two 2023 recipients, is an emergency medicine physician in...
In 2017, Community Memorial Foundation (CMF) and Healthy Communities Foundation (HCF) collaborated to fund models of health care delivery that utilize Community Health Workers (CHWs), thus improving access to care and growing the health care workforce in the western suburbs of Chicago. CMF and HCF...
On August 29, Health & Medicine Policy Research Group submitted a letter to Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago City Council calling for more funding for the Chicago Department of Health. Protecting and improving the public’s health requires a fully funded public health system. The...
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...
Health & Medicine’s Emerging Leader Award recognizes leaders with fewer than 15 years of experience who are currently involved in community-based work with broadly defined public health implications. Bonnie Ewald, one of two 2023 recipients, is a dedicated public service professional...
Since its inception in 1996, the Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program has provided a platform for graduate students to design and implement innovative projects that improve the health and well-being of underserved populations throughout Chicago. Individual donors are critical to the...
Health & Medicine’s Research Award recognizes an individual involved in any aspect of quantitative or qualitative research, community-based research, or evaluative research that serves to promote improvements in quality of life while recognizing the multiple determinants of health. This...
Health & Medicine’s Policy Award recognizes an individual working in advocacy, government, media, or philanthropy whose work encompasses the many facets of policy analysis, development, planning, and implementation. This year’s recipient, Katie Thiede, is a tireless champion for health...
Health & Medicine’s Medicine Award recognizes an individual whose work in any aspect of health care delivery fosters system or institutional improvements. This year’s recipient, Dr. Jorelle Alexander, is an exceptional leader who prioritizes access to high-quality oral health care...
Health & Medicine is excited to announce that board member Joe Zanoni has received an honorable mention for the 2023 Alice Hamilton Awards from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Through a service project in the UIC School of Public Health’s Environmental and...
We are pleased to announce that Tyler M. Linder from the Rush University College of Medicine has been selected as the 2023-24 Tarik F. Ibrahim Fellow. Learn more about the Tarik F. Ibrahim MD, MS Fellowship here. Each year, Health & Medicine Policy Research Group recognizes the life and legacy...