Health & Medicine Policy Research Group is proud to share our 2025 Policy Agenda. Our top policy priorities are divided into seven categories: Aging Equity Healing-centered and Trauma-informed Health Workforce Health Care as a Human Right Housing Justice Public Health System Capacity...
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...
Health & Medicine announces an exciting collaboration that marks a transformative step forward for reproductive justice in Illinois. Health & Medicine Policy Research Group is joining forces with the Black Midwifery Collective and researchers from Northwestern University to create...
The Healing-Centered Illinois Task Force, established through SB 646 in January 2024, has released a landmark recommendations report outlining a blueprint to advance trauma-informed and healing-centered policies and practices statewide. The Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative at Health &...
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,...
ILLINOIS (August 14, 2024) — Illinois Aging Together, a campaign for aging equity led by Health & Medicine Policy Research Group, celebrates Illinois Governor Pritzker’s executive order to establish a planning commission for a multi-sector plan for aging. Across the nation, states are...