Join us in this special episode featuring the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (CHEC) Fellows Program 2024 cohort. This program brings undergrad and postbac students together in preparation for careers in social, behavioral, and biomedical research and in health care.They share with us their experiences with the CHEC Fellows program inclu…

Join us in this special episode featuring the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (CHEC) Fellows Program 2023 cohort. This program brings undergrad and postbac students together in preparation for careers in social, behavioral, and biomedical research and in health care.They share with us their experiences with the CHEC Fellows program inclu…

In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with CHET Director/Founder -- Dr. Melissa Simon. Melissa A. Simon, MD, MPH is the George H. Gardner Professor of Clinical Gyneco…

In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with Kelly Davis, MPA who is co-founder and Chief Equity Officer at KINSHIFT. KINSHIFT supports healthcare and public health tra…

In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with Dr. Kathryn (Katie) Schubert who is President and CEO of the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR), where she leads th…

In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with Dr. Carolyn Sufrin who is a medical anthropologist and obstetrician/gynecologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She w…

In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with Janel Hughes-Jones, a bilingual breastfeeding Peer Counselor (PC), with more than 18 years of experience working with many …

In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with Dr. Ashish Premkumar, a maternal-fetal medicine clinician/researcher at the John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in…

In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with Dr. Rishi Agrawal, a pediatric hospitalist at La Rabida children's hospital - a partner of Lurie Children's Hospital. His r…

In this special episode, a ChicagoCHEC Fellows Alumnus -- Maxson Joseph -- talks with two high school students part of the UIC Champions Vaccination Cohort.UIC Champions is a summer program with its goal of empowering Chicago youth to become community leaders, create pathways to health professions careers and advance health equity. More info at htt…

Join us in this special episode featuring the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (CHEC) Fellows Program 2020 cohort. This program brings undergrad and postbac students together in preparation for careers in social, behavioral, and biomedical research and in health care. They share with us their experiences with the CHEC Fellows during a pan…

This episode was recorded on May 11, 2020.Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing physical distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.This episode features our co-host Araceli Estrada interview…

NOTE: This episode was recorded on January 9th, 2020.Our guest for this special episode during Hispanic Heritage Month is José López – a prominent community leader and Executive Director of The Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago, which he co-founded in 1973. He has written extensively on the political and social reality of Puerto Ricans in the…

NOTE: This episode was recorded in October 2019.The SkinnyTrees podcast team took a field trip to an urban farm on Chicago’s south side. Founded in 2017, the Urban Growers Collective (UGC) aims to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in underserved communities. Their vision is to use urban agriculture to cu…

This episode was recorded on May 4, 2020.Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.This episode features our co-host, Rabih Dahdouh, interviewing…

Note: This episode was recorded on March 12, 2020, just days before the Governor of Illinois instituted a stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus outbreak.In this episode we connected with Kimberly Soenen (short bio below) to discuss the importance of language in health and her ongoing art exhibit "SOME PEOPLE" (Every)Body. The ongoing project ex…

This episode was recorded on April 20th, 2020.Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.This episode features our co-host, Ivy Leung, interviewin…

This episode was recorded on April 9th, 2020. Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.This episode features our co-host, Rabih Dahdouh, intervi…

Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.Each mini episode will focus on a different community in Chicago to find out how they are coping with t…

Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.Each mini episode will focus on a different community in Chicago to find out how they are coping with t…

Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.Each mini episode will focus on a different community in Chicago to find out how they are coping with t…

Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.Each mini episode will focus on a different community in Chicago to find out how they are coping with t…

In this episode we sit with Dr. Fernando De Maio and Dr. Raj Shah. Together they are co-directors of the Center for Community Health Equity -- a collaboration between DePaul and Rush University -- founded in 2015. They are also co-editors of “Community Health Equity: A Chicago Reader” -- released in April 2019. We discuss the book as a framework to…

Join us as we talk about the inequities surrounding gun violence with our Strategic Operations Director Samantha Alonis as she leads the discussion with Noam Ostrander (DePaul University) and Terry Williams (UIC) from the Chicago Gun Violence Research Collaborative, with special guest Valerie Burgest from the Illinois Chapter of Moms Demand Action.…

In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Clyde Yancy -- Vice Dean for Diversity & Inclusion and Chief of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (NUFSM).In our discussion we covered the dangers of implicit bias in healthcare, addressing inequities in academic medical institutions, and how Dr. Yan…

Join us in this special episode featuring the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative Research Fellows Program 2019 cohort. This program brings undergrad and postbac students together in preparation for careers in social, behavioral, and biomedical research and in health care. They share with us their experiences, highlights and “aha” moments fr…

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Julie Morita, former Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health and currently the Executive Vice President at the RWJF (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)"overseeing all programming, policy, research, and communications activities in support of its vision of building a Culture of Health in America in …

Welcome back! SkinnyTrees is happy to return with its second season. In this first episode of season two we bring back Dr. Melissa Simon to discuss what we have been up to since you last heard from us. Dr. Simon introduces an exciting new center launched this year -- the Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET). She explains the work this cen…

Join Skinny Trees on their first Mini-Episode led by Anika Jagasia, a rising high school Senior. Anika speaks with Dr. Joe Feinglass on his long-time career as a historian, social activist, former factory machinist, community college professor, and now a full professor and health services researcher at Northwestern University.…

SkinnyTrees Interviews Howard Brown COO by Center for Health Equity Transformation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicineद्वारा Center for Health Equity Transformation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

When you think of health inequities our visions are not automatically brought to a person in a wheelchair, but people with disabilities experience many barriers to care, are often living on public aid, and have - as you might imagine - general issues maneuvering - at times - an inaccessible world. Being one of the first ten centers for independent …

EPISODE 2 | On ‘Breaking the Rules’ with one of Chicago’s most prominent Social Activists, Dr. Linda Rae Murray.www.skinnytreespodcast.comCHARGED. HAPPY. HOSTILE. ENRAGED. HOPEFUL. DISAPPOINTED.How do you feel about the last month?We have a new {future} President. We have a changing America.On Episode 2, we dive a little deeper into this…Dr. Murray…

Episode 1 was created to set the scene for the content of Skinny Trees and the reoccurring themes we will discuss over the next 6 months of season 1. We interview Dr. Melissa Simon to better understand the landscape of health equity and to learn more about the varying terms of health disparities/inequality/inequities.Intro Music:Artist: Elizabeth B…