Join us in this special episode featuring the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (CHEC) Fellows Program 2024 cohort. This program brings undergrad and postbac students together in preparation for careers in social, behavioral, and biomedical research and in health care. They share with us their experiences with the CHEC Fellows program including highlights, insightful moments […]

In this special episode we feature the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (CHEC) Fellows Program 2023 cohort. The CHEC Fellows program brings undergrad and postbac students together in preparation for careers in social, behavioral, and biomedical research and in health care. They share with us their experiences with the CHEC Fellows program including highlights and […]

In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity. CONTACT US: – skinnytreespodcast@gmail.com – twitter.com/skinnytrees312

NOTE: This episode was recorded on January 9th, 2020. Our guest for this special episode during Hispanic Heritage Month is José López – a prominent community leader and Executive Director of The Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago, which he co-founded in 1973. He has written extensively on the political and social reality of Puerto […]

NOTE: This episode was recorded in October 2019.   The SkinnyTrees podcast team took a field trip to an urban farm on Chicago’s south side. Founded in 2017, the Urban Growers Collective (UGC) aims to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in underserved communities. Their vision is to […]

Note: This episode was recorded on March 12, 2020, just days before the Governor of Illinois instituted a stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus outbreak.   In this episode we connected with Kimberly Soenen (short bio below) to discuss the importance of language in health and her ongoing art exhibit “SOME PEOPLE” (Every)Body. The ongoing […]

In this episode we sit with Dr. Fernando De Maio and Dr. Raj Shah. Together they are co-directors of the Center for Community Health Equity — a collaboration between DePaul and Rush University — founded in 2015. They are also co-editors of “Community Health Equity: A Chicago Reader” — released in April 2019. We discuss […]

Join us as we talk about the inequities surrounding gun violence with our Strategic Operations Director Samantha Alonis as she leads the discussion with Noam Ostrander (DePaul University) and Terry Williams (UIC) from the Chicago Gun Violence Research Collaborative, with special guest Valerie Burgest from the Illinois Chapter of Moms Demand Action. We cover how […]

In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Clyde Yancy — Vice Dean for Diversity & Inclusion and Chief of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (NUFSM). In our discussion we covered the dangers of implicit bias in healthcare, addressing inequities in academic medical institutions, and how Dr. […]

Join us in this special episode featuring the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative Research Fellows Program 2019 cohort. This program brings undergrad and postbac students together in preparation for careers in social, behavioral, and biomedical research and in health care. They share with us their experiences, highlights and “aha” moments from this summer and how […]

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Julie Morita, former Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health and currently the Executive Vice President at the RWJF (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)”overseeing all programming, policy, research, and communications activities in support of its vision of building a Culture of Health in America in which everyone […]

Welcome back! SkinnyTrees is happy to return with its second season. In this first episode of season two we bring back Dr. Melissa Simon to discuss what we have been up to since you last heard from us. Dr. Simon introduces an exciting new center launched this year — the Center for Health Equity Transformation […]

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