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ARCC is happy to lift up the recent success of several of our partners and grantee. If you have something to share too, let us know at ARCC@northwestern.edu

▪ In the 3rd year of the Northwestern Racial Equity and Community Partnership grants program, more than $550,000 was granted to 13 local beneficiaries to fuel projects based in Evanston and Chicago that focus on health equity, children’s learning and social or economic empowerment. Five of the projects include ARCC partners:

• Bright Star Community Outreach, along with Northwestern's Department of Medicine, is improving access to palliative care for Black residents of Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood.
• Cultivate Collective is collaborating with Northwestern's Osher Center for Integrative Medicine on a project centered on health equity in southwest Chicago.
• Distinctively Me and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences are working on the project “Rebuilding Black Girlhood: Programming, Partnership and Research with Black Girls.”
• The Evanston Development Cooperative and Northwestern's Buehler Center for Health Policy & Economics have developed a one-stop shop for equitable and affordable housing retrofits.
• Lorenzo’s House has teamed up with Northwestern's Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology & Alzheimer's Disease on “Music, Movement & Memory: Providing Access to Families Across Chicago.”

 ▪ New Seed Grantee Holistic Birth Collective was featured in this Crain's story about Black maternal health.

▪ ARCC Seed Grantees Robert Simmons (Oak Park Library) and Ashley Knapp (NU Psychiatry & ARCC Steering Committee Academic Chair) had their first publication on their partnership: “The library is so much more than books”: considerations for the design and implementation of teen digital mental health services in public libraries. Access the Frontiers in Digital Health article here. 

 ▪ ARCC grantee Black Researchers Collective Community Workshop Intensive: Summer Series seeks to engage five of Chicago’s southside communities (Bronzeville, South Chicago, South Shore, Washington Park, and Woodlawn) in an immersive learning experience.

Please join ARCC Community Partner, Sherida Morrison, and ARCC Co-Director, Jen Brown, as part of the Northwestern University's Institutional Review Board (IRB) Office monthly virtual brown bag series for a presentation on community-engaged research and how Northwestern University considers the varied expertise of academics and communities to improve the relevance, design and impact of research. This discussion will push beyond rules and regulations to interrogate the nature and design of our human research conduct.



Register here: https://irb.northwestern.edu/about/events.html

Introduction to Public Health Data Science in R

Friday, August 25, 2023, 12-6pm

302 E Huron St, Chicago, IL 60611

Simpson Querrey Auditorium

This half-day, in-person workshop will cover where to find data, how to interpret them, and how to analyze them. There will be a specific focus on the use of R and RStudio, an open-source software package for data science.

The workshop will:

• Provide an overview of sources of public health data from Chicago and nationally
• Review the content of an introductory biostatistics course
• Cover data importing, data types, visualization, comparing means, and regression 

Workshop Facilitator:

Andrew Naidech, MD, MSPH

Director, Master of Public Health

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 

Registration closes Friday, August 11.

Fee: $300 ($50 for partner organizations*)

Registration

Partner Organization Registration

(*Partner Organizations are those that have signed memorandums of agreement with Northwestern University)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION WINDOW:

Thursday, July 27 – Thursday, August 10

Research Day offers students and researchers at Feinberg a public forum for presenting their findings and an opportunity to receive valuable feedback from their colleagues.

The window to submit your abstract for Research Day 2023 will open on Thursday, July 27. Please check your email on July 27 for a link to the submissions portal.

For more information about the event, please visit the Research Day website.