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NEWS
Join the Chicago AHEC Speakers Bureau! - Chicago AHEC invites health care professionals from diverse health careers to the classroom to inform, motivate, and empower high school students to pursue attainable health career goals. Match Day and a Festive Forum at UMed - The Urban Medicine (UMed) Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago had a lot to celebrate. Not only did 98% of the graduating class Match, but half will remain in Illinois. Apply Now: Summer Urban Health Experience - The first annual Urban Health Experience (UHE) will be held this summer, June 7 to August 3. The UHE is designed for undergraduates in all health professions who want to investigate many of the community-level factors that impact the health … Continue reading → Experts Testify on Underfunding in Chicago’s Health Department - Wesley Epplin, the policy director at Chicago AHEC’s host organization, Health & Medicine Policy Research Group, was recently quoted in an article by Block Club Chicago. He spoke about the impact of underfunding health departments on Black and Brown communities.
EVENTS
Trauma-Informed Awareness Day Virtual Event – May 25 - The event, “Building a Healing Centered Illinois,” will serve as a call for meaningful action to translate awareness about trauma into resilience-building and healing-centered transformative policies and practices across the state.