Our Work
The work of the Center for Community Health Equity appears in a wide range of publications, reports, and collaborations.
The work of the Center for Community Health Equity appears in a wide range of publications, reports, and collaborations.
A holistic approach to assisting in the healing of our communities amidst the anguish, rage, violence, illness, trauma, and loss they have and continue to experience.
We have written and contributed to several educational texts focusing on health equity. Our most recent publication is Unequal Cities: Structural Racism and the Death Gap in America’s 30 Largest Cities.
Op-ed work related to health equity written by members of the Center’s team. Continue reading “Opinion Pieces”
This project seeks to document the biographies of researchers, clinicians, and activists that have devoted their careers to the cause of health equity.
CCHE & Irwin W. Steans Center
Health Equity Focused, Community Engaged
Faculty Fellowship Program
With the goal of promoting community-engaged inquiry, scholarship, and service, CCHE and DePaul’s Steans Center hope to engage community partners to identify, understand, and respond to public health needs. Launched in 2021, this program awards one faculty fellowship to a DePaul faculty member who has been developing health-focused and community-engaged scholarship. The faculty fellow is supported by The Faculty Scholarship Collaborative (FSC), and receives a stipend and a funded research assistant for three academic quarters. Community partners also receive a $1,000 stipend as a collaborator in the research process. Details for the 2023-24 Fellowship application will be posted soon.
Congratulations to our Fellows!
2022-23 Recipient
Nila G. Hofman, Professor of Anthropology
Tipped Wages and Benefits in the Restaurant Industry: an inquiry into health equity
Collaborating with Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), a nonprofit organization fighting to improve the working conditions of restaurant workers
-With DePaul student Isatou Sallah
2021-22 Recipient
Sonya Crabtree-Nelson, Professor of Social Work
Head Injury and Strangulation in Swedish Hospital Emergency Department Domestic Violence Patients Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic
-Community-engaged project with community partner – Pathways Program at Swedish Hospital
-Examines the health disparities that exist for patients with a history of intimate partner violence (IPV) who exhibit brain injury symptoms.
With DePaul Graduate student Rumi Rivera-Lovato
The Center for Community Health Equity is excited to be working with Chicago Scholars to engage young adults in the planning and direction of the health equity work of the Center.
BELONGING: A Virtual Gallery
Share your thoughts on belonging through the art form of your choosing.
Continue reading “Belonging: A Call for Art and Expression”The working papers series of the Center for Community Health Equity highlights the work of the Center, affiliated faculty and students, as well as community partners.
Our Annual Review provides a concise summary of health equity research in Chicago. Continue reading “Annual Review of Health Equity Research”