Dr. Uchechi Mitchell Title: Holding on to Hope: An analysis of Structural Risk Factors and Resilience Facilitators among a Racial Diverse Population of Older Adults Hopelessness is an understudied consequence of structural violence. To date, population-level studies examining the relationship between discrimination and hopelessness among older Americans are non-existent. Rather, the extant literature has […]

Dr. Rosalba Hernandez received her PhD in Public Health from the UIC. She explores whether characteristics like optimism and resilience are associated with low-risk cardiovascular disease profiles, and whether interventions geared toward increasing psychological well-being can favorably impact subclinical and clinical manifestations of disease. Her goal is to employ theories from positive psychology to help […]

November 29, 2018 (10am-2pm CST) UIC College of Nursing 3rd floor Event Space, 845 S Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60612 Join Us in Celebrating World AIDS Day on Thursday, November 29th. Confirm your attendance at https://go.uic.edu/UICWorldAIDSDay2018      

Job Posting Community Adults Intervention Coordinator The University of Illinois at Chicago Office of Community Engagement and Neighborhood Health Partnership– Chicago Partnership for Health Promotion is seeking a candidate for Community Adults Intervention Coordinator to work in an exciting USDA funded public health nutrition education program- SNAP-Ed. The Community Adults Intervention Coordinator will collaborate with sites that serve low-income […]

Tuesday| 6 First nations Film Festival 12PM-2PM Latino Cultural Center   Wednesday| 7 Connect and Create 11AM-1PM Commuter Center   Wednesday| 14 Natives in Chicago 3PM-5PM SCE Cardinal Room   Thursday| 15 Film Screening 6PM UIC Daley Library   Friday| 16 Native American Veterans Day Powwow 5PM-10PM SCE Illinois Room      

“Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her child is violence. Discrimination against a workingman is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical needs is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence”. To read full article: http://childrenshealthwatch.org/the-poor-peoples-campaign-calls-out-policy-violence/

Two new open position, Community Health Manager and Associate Director of the Chicago Breast Cancer Quality Consortium. Below are the descriptions and requirements of the positions. Associate Director Consortium 8-29-18 Community Health Manager 9-18-18

Police killings and their spillover effects on the mental healthof black Americans: a population-based, quasi-experimentalstudy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673618311309 Bor, J., Venkataramani, A. S., Williams, D. R., & Tsai, A. C. (2018). Police killings and their spillover effects on the mental health of black Americans: a population-based, quasi-experimental study. The Lancet.

Research from the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and the University of Illinois Cancer Center is featured in a Chicago Sun-Times article on structural violence and colon cancer risk. CHER co-principal investigator Robert Winn, associate vice chancellor for community-based practice and director of the UI Cancer Center, and researcher Paul Grippo, associate professor of […]