by Irene Hsiao | Dec 12, 2023 | community, csac, news, newsletter, team members
C3EN is delighted to announce that Activity and Recreation in Communities for Health (ARCH), led by Brad Appelhans, Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at Rush University Medical Center and C3EN Investigator Development Core co-director, in partnership with Paris Thomas, executive director of Equal Hope, a Chicago not-for-profit organization focused on eliminating health inequities, has received funding from NIH to study a novel approach to reducing depressive symptoms and lowering cardiometabolic risk.
by Irene Hsiao | Dec 11, 2023 | news, newsletter, team members
There’s a variety of reasons why Asian Americans have been too invisible. Some of it is that the data are not collected or, or that granular data that divides Asians across different subgroups often are not collected. Some of it is being treated as the other, always being a perpetual foreigner, or even as the model minority myth—it’s another way of making invisible the heterogeneity within the Asian population.
by Irene Hsiao | Oct 25, 2023 | newsletter, team members
It took me many years to be brave enough to speak honestly or put together what I was seeing and to be able to say, “This has social causation, and part of the social causation is structural racism and economic deprivation”… if I’m proud of anything it was to change the narrative around causation.
by Irene Hsiao | Jul 28, 2023 | newsletter, team members
Having grown up on the south side of Chicago, I was well aware of economic disparities. However, I only became acutely aware of health disparities as a case manager in an acute care state hospital, the now-closed Tinley Park Mental Health Center.
by Irene Hsiao | Jun 26, 2023 | newsletter, team members
I think it is truly our responsibility to maximize the use of the tools we have been fortunate to receive to make the world a better place and especially to elevate those who did not get the same tools that we did.
by Irene Hsiao | Jun 15, 2023 | community, events, team members
C3EN is excited to participate in this year’s Gospel Run! The 5K run, 5K walk, and Half Mile Kids Run will take place on September 9, 2023 at 39th Street Beach in Chicago. Join our team, organized by Amber Deckard — and see you there!
