Advancing Birth Justice in Illinois

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...

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Healing-Centered Illinois Task Force Charts the Path Forward

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 &...

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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 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,...

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