This February, community members are invited to join Live Healthy Chicago and the Chicago Park District in celebrating Heart Month and empowering communities to Get to Know Their Numbers at two Community Health Fairs in Garfield Park and Englewood.
On January 15, WBEZ featured a recent JAMA Network Open study, Eviction, Collective Efficacy, and Firearm Violence in Chicago, by C3EN Pilot Awardee Elizabeth Tung, et al, which used participant data from the Healthy Chicago Surveys from 2021 to 2023, and neighborhood-level data from the City of Chicago to show that a 1% increase in the census tract eviction rate was associated with 2.66 additional shootings within 1000 feet of the individual’s home.
Congratulations to C3EN Pilot Awardee Saria Lofton, assistant professor at UIC College of Nursing, on receiving an NIH R01 for FIM+DASH: A randomized Food Is Medicine trial to promote healthy eating and blood pressure control in hypertensive Black women with obesity!