CSAC Member Highlight: Pat Lyons
“Instead of placing blame on individuals, it’s crucial to shine a light on social factors that impede marginalized communities’ ability to achieve and maintain good health.”
CSAC Member Highlight: Swati Goyal
How do we continue to address and involve the Latinx community, the African American community and also involve the immigrant populations, the migrant populations, the refugee populations, and the variety of Asian populations that exist in the city of Chicago and Illinois?
CSAC Member Highlight: Karyn Bolden Stovall
There’s been a lot of stigma about mental health conditions, especially in communities of color, because we have centuries of experience of having to pretend we’re okay — even when we’re not — because it kept us safe. Because we’ve had to be so protective has meant that we have not gotten the services that we need and that we deserve.
CSAC Member Highlight: Amit Acharya
Mistrust in research in health in some communities is so strong and historical. Researchers want to publish data on communities, but what is a community’s interest in science? Without building a network and a platform in the community, it’s hard to do any research–and discoveries have to go on to benefit the patients in our community.
CSAC Member Highlight: Joyce Chapman
People want to have a safe place to build. I’m so tired of seeing teddy bears and candles and balloons. At the end of the day, what are you going to do? How we get there, I don’t know. It’s a collective action.