Center for Community Health
Overview
MAY 15th: Join us for our Center for Community Health Groundbreaking event!
The Center for Community Health (CCH) provides a home and support for academic and community-based partners conducting research, education, and service activities to improve the health and healthcare of communities.
As one of eight centers in the Institute for Public Health & Medicine, CCH will facilitate multi-disciplinary, partnered efforts to envision and investigate a frontier of medicine that integrates public policy and population health.
CCH Resources & Services
Current CCH resources and services primarily focus on research, and include:
- Fiscal support (including seed grants offered through the ARCC and PBR programs)
- Technical assistance and consultations
- Partner-matching and networking for academic and community partners
- Education and career development
Targeted areas for growth over the next one to three years include:
- Expansion of education and training services for faculty, staff, students, and community partners
- City-wide and regional collaboration across institutions
- Dissemination of new findings and best practices to a diverse range of community entities including healthcare providers, public policy, community-based and faith-based organizations
- Developing new programs of research, which build upon existing strengths and opportunities to catalyze idea formation and the pursuit of extramural funding
- Functional teams to support the development and implementation of community-focused projects
All faculty, staff, and community partners of Northwestern University and its affiliate institutions are eligible to participate in CCH activities and/or receive most services. Certain targeted services will be available only to specific groups. In these cases, the eligibility criteria will be detailed under the listing of that service.
Contact and Additional Information
- For general inquiries or to be added to our mailing list, please email cch@northwestern.edu
- For information about the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC), and related events and activities, please visit www.ARCConline.net
- For information on Practice-Based Research, including the PPRG and REACH networks, please visit http://bit.ly/UEypA9
Center Programs
- Program in Community Health Equity
- Program in Community-Healthcare Linkages
- Program in Child, Adolescent & School-based Health
- Program in Violence & Injury Prevention
- Program in LGBT Health & Development
Schools, Departments, Institutes, Centers, and Community Partners Represented
- Feinberg School of Medicine
GIM (Programs in Health Communications, Vulnerable Populations, and Healthcare and Community Linkages), Pediatrics, IHS (Centers for Maternal and Child Health, Healthcare Equity, Health Economics, Health Policy and Implementation, and Chronic Disease Care & Outcomes), Preventive Medicine (Division of Epidemiology, Program in Minority Health), NUCATS, Medical Social Sciences (Programs in LGBT Health and Development, Health Literacy, and Cancer Community Engaged Research and Center Planning Grant), Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Research Center (Centers for Community Partnerships and Health Promotion; Gender, Sexuality, and HIV Prevention; Obesity Management and Prevention) - School of Education and Social Policy
- Institute for Policy Research
- Cells to Society
- Chicago Department of Public Health
- Chicago Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center
- Sinai Urban Health Institute
Center Information
420 E. Superior St.
Rubloff 10th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
Center Director
Ronald T Ackermann, MD/MPH
Center Administrator
Justin Henderson
Founded: 2012
This page last updated Apr 26, 2013