On November 20, 2025, WBEZ reported on the 20-year death gap among residents in Chicago. C3EN Community Engagement Core co-director David Ansell and CSAC member Ayesha Jaco, executive director of West Side United, both weigh in.
Congratulations to C3EN Investigator Development Core co-director Arshiya Baig, Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, on being named 2025 Midwest Region Leader in General Internal Medicine by the Society of General Internal Medicine at SGIM Midwest!
Congratulations to C3EN Administrative Core co-director Tricia Johnson, Professor of Health Systems Management at Rush University, and Multi-PI Aloka Patel, Glore Family Professor of Neonatology at Rush University, on receiving a third NIH R01 grant in support of their ReDiMOM (Reducing Disparity in Receipt of Mother’s Own Milk) study!
Congratulations to C3EN co-director Elizabeth Lynch, PhD, Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at Rush University, who will receive the Dr. John W. Hatch FLAME Award from the Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community of the American Public Health Association!
Congratulations to C3EN Pilot Awardee Chuka Emezue on being named the inaugural John L. and Helen Kellogg Endowed Faculty Scholar at Rush College of Nursing! This autumn, Emezue’s EMERGE Innovations Lab continues their annual Technology and Adolescent Mental Health Internship (TAMI) program for high school students — a program initiated with a $3000 C3EN community grant.