Health And Medicine Policy Research Group

Adverse childhood experiences (ace's) - health & medicine is the lead convener of the illinois adverse childhood experiences response collaborative, a group of multi-sectoral stakeholders committed to expanding the understanding of trauma and its impact on people's lives. Through advocacy and mobilization efforts, we work to put the issues of aces and resilience on the forefront of the equity agenda in illinois.

Schweitzer - health & medicine's chicago area schweitzer fellows program cultivates aspiring health and human services professionals to be informed, concerned, and involved with addressing health inequities. Each year, the schweitzer program provides 28 exceptional students with opportunities to design and implement projects to improve the health and well-being of underserved chicago communities.

Area health education center (ahec) - a workforce development program designed to recruit, train and retain a health profession workforce committed to underserved populations, with a special focus on promoting health career to minorities and underserved populations.

Center for public health equity - organized to identify gaps in needed health services and funding while developing policy recommendations to strengthen health care in the region and efforts to develop health equity programs.

Long term care - the center for long-term care reform promotes equitable aging within communities for all illinoisans at all ages. The center works toward a just society that enables people to age well across the entire life course and an equitable system of long-term services and support so that people can live according to their own goals and values, without exploitation or unmet needs. The center advocates for caregiving that supports both the needs and rights of older individuals and caregivers.

Fiscal sponsorships - health & medicine acts as a fiscal sponsor for several small organizations like che cook county, chicago south side birth center, chicagoland equity network, vaccine brigade, and rush university for health & social care intergration.