This summer, Health & Medicine welcomes our sixth cohort of interns in our Equity Intern Program: Mehwish Ali, Anuj Jain, and Mayra Miranda! Mehwish Ali, Summer 2022 Ben Squires Equity Intern, is currently enrolled as a Master of Public Health student at Benedictine University in the divisions...
Health & Medicine was formed in 1981, when Chicago health and social justice advocate Quentin D. Young, MD brought a group of social justice advocates together to form a health policy think tank. Together they planned to research, educate, and convene stakeholders to challenge health...
Health & Medicine is pleased to announce our Summer 2022 Ben Squires Equity Intern, Mehwish Ali. Mehwish is currently enrolled as a Masters of Public Health student at Benedictine University in the divisions of Epidemiology and Health Management and Policy. She graduated from Loyola University...
Amy De La Torre, University of Illinois School of Medicine; Brice Jones, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine; Niam Vora, University of Illinois Chicago College of Pharmacy; Austin Hwang, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; and Isaiah Brown, University of Chicago, Pritzker...
Health & Medicine has spent the past 40 years fighting to protect and expand healthcare access and improve systems and policy so that equity is no longer a dream, but a reality. As we enter the summer months ahead, we need your help to counteract restrictive policies and to promote ones that...
Twenty-eight passionate health professions graduate students have been selected for the distinguished Schweitzer Fellowship, a year-long service-learning program that helps Fellows design and implement innovative projects that help address the health needs of underserved Chicago communities. Named...
Twenty-eight passionate health professions graduate students have been selected for the distinguished Schweitzer Fellowship, a year-long service-learning program that helps Fellows design and implement innovative projects that help address the health needs of underserved Chicago communities. Named...
On May 14, 2022, the nation bore witness to a mass shooting by a white supremacist who was targeting Black community members in Buffalo, NY. In minutes, ten innocent Black people lost their lives. The traumatic impact of this racist attack has rippled across the country. The most acute effect is...
On the evening of May 2nd, women in America confronted the stark and traumatizing reality that — for the first time in a half century — we are likely to lose our federal right to a safe and legal abortion. A leaked draft opinion by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who was speaking for the...
Each year, we gather to celebrate the tremendous work of our graduating Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows. We were thrilled to present our 25th class of Schweitzer Fellows — our second class to complete the Fellowship completely during the time of COVID-19 — at our Celebration of Service. Our...
Health & Medicine Policy Research Group and the Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program are pleased to announce the Frank J. Indihar, MD Schweitzer Fellowship. The Fellowship—named in honor of Frank Indihar, MD, whose grandniece, Kelly Moore (née Koronkowski), was a 2020-2021 Chicago Area...
Nominations are now open for our 2022 Health & Medicine Awards. Help us celebrate the public health champions in our community who transform and improve the lives and well-being of all, both every day and in times of crisis, by nominating an individual or organization in our community who...