Meet Joyce Chapman Community Grant Awardee Amanda R. Mathew
The more I learned about how the tobacco industry has targeted the African American community, the more I started to think about smoking as not just a health issue, but a social justice issue.
C3EN Team Member Highlight: Ron Ackermann
Our research on the Diabetes Prevention Program informed a policy document called the Diabetes Prevention Act of 2009. It was passed into law in the Affordable Care Act, which authorized the formation of the National Diabetes Prevention Program.
April Town Hall at Westside Health Authority
On April 18, 2023, C3EN and Westside Health Authority cohosted a town hall at Westside Health Authority’s Good Neighbor Campaign (5437 W. Division, Chicago) in Austin. The meeting was held as a roundtable with community members and researchers. Community members...
C3EN Team Member Highlight: Steven K. Rothschild
My dad’s family escaped the Nazis in the late 1930s, so it was understood that sitting on the sidelines wasn’t ever going to be an option.
Humans of Chicago: Marvin Tate
North Lawndale is where I witness beautiful gardens and architecture that could outrival anything my younger self could imagine. It’s also where I witnessed the aftermath of the MLK assassination, young sisters and brothers dressed regally in their Black Panther uniforms, and the shooting of my mother at the age of nine.