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Health & Medicine Policy Research Group seeks a skilled Instructional Designer to create engaging and accessible visualizations for 19 public health career pathways. This project will support our Health Career Pathways Resource (CPR), a tool designed to increase...
The Healing-Centered Illinois Task Force, established by SB 646 in January 2024, has released its comprehensive recommendations report, offering a blueprint for advancing trauma-informed and healing-centered policies and practices across the state. The Illinois ACEs...
On November 7, 2024, Health & Medicine Policy Director Wesley Epplin delivered testimony to the Chicago City Council Committee on Budget and Government Operations regarding threats to the Chicago Public Health Department's budget. "In the shadow of the Federal...
On October 24, 2023, Health & Medicine Policy Director testified before the Cook County Board of Commissioners about the dire need for public health funding. "If there’s one lesson you take away from the COVID-19 pandemic, I hope it is this: People’s lives depend...
We are all aging, all of the time, and virtually all of us care about—and many provide care to— older persons; so, we all have a vested interest in moving toward aging equity. Further, as our population gets older, to successfully provide services to all, every agency...
A quiet revolution is taking place in the heart of Chicago, where the pandemic's effects still echo through communities on the South and West sides. Among the cohort of graduates from Chicago Volunteer Doulas' 100 Doulas Rising program, a new battalion of birth...
A group of 80 Chicago-area organizations signed letters requesting significantly increased funding for the Chicago and Cook County departments of public health to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago City Council, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle, County...
Wesley Epplin, Policy Director at Health & Medicine Policy Research Group Good afternoon. I’m Wesley Epplin. I serve as Policy Director at Health & Medicine Policy Research Group. I direct our Aging Equity Center which has worked for 25 years to create...
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...
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...