Health & Medicine (HMPRG)

Profiles in Service - Chicago Schweitzer Fellows in Action

View these two powerful Profiles in Service from The Chicago Schweitzer Fellows Program. A reminder,  applications for the program are due February 1, 2010.  Learn more about the application process

Sara Van Koningsveld, a Columbia College Dance Movement Therapy and Counseling student, received a Schweitzer Fellowship award to help improve the health and well being of an underserved Chicago community. She designed a project to reduce stress and improve self esteem for residents of Deborah's Place. We thank Sara and the women at Deborah's Place for their participation in this video. ©2009 Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, Chicago, IL 

When he received a Schweitzer Fellowship in 2007, University of Chicago medical student Jason Waldinger decided to create a tutoring program for underserved youths at the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club. He was successful with sustaining the project, and it is still going strong with the help of students from the University.

Chicagoans, Tune into CAN-TV for Provocative Dialogue on Health Care Reform

The ARC09 Forum held September 19, 2009 at Access Living: The Fierce Urgency of Now- HealthCare and Human Rights with Dr. Linda Murray and V.J. Prashad will air on Sunday October, 18th 1 PM on CAN TV, Channel 21.  Revisit the speaker list and the forum "framing"

The forum hosted by Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows on September 22, 2009 at UIC: Health Reform: Successes and Failures from Varying View Points, will air Tuesday, October 13th, 9:30 AM on CAN-TV Channel 19 and Tuesday, October 20th, 12:30 PM, on CAN TV Channel 21. Revisit the speaker list for that forum

Bring Your Friends to a Public Symposium - Health Reform: Successes and Failures from Varying View Points

Speakers with varying viewpoints will discuss the Obama Plan (and how it has transformed to the current legislation), the successes and failures of health reform to date, and how the public can influence the process. (Presented by the 2009/2010 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows)

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
UIC School of Public Health
Auditorium
1603 W. Taylor Street, Chicago
5:30pm- 7:30pm

Featured Speakers: Dr. Claudia Fegan - Practicing physician for Cook County Health and Hospitals System and board member of Physicians for a National Health Program; Hank Scheff - Director of Research and Employee Benefits of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 31;  Jonathan Vanderbrug - Health Care Justice Director, Campaign for Better Health Care. Download the  event flyer

RSVP encouraged: email rsvp@hmprg.org or call 312-372-4292 ext. 24

2009 HMPRG Awards-Call For Nominations

As part of the 25th anniversary of Health & Medicine Policy Research Group in 2006, we established an awards program to honor those individuals and organizations that have shown leadership and vision in the fight for health system reform.

As we all work to create a just health system, we want to take time out, once again, to celebrate those individuals and organizations whose work stands out as exemplary.We are asking your help submitting nominees for the 2009 HMPRG Awards which will honor accomplishments in Health, Medicine, Policy, and Research; along with the fifth award acknowledging work done by a Group.

This time around, current and past Schweitzer Fellows are also being invited to nominate an Emerging Health Leader from agencies where they have done their placements. Health & Medicine also plans to present a special award to several local high-schoolers committed to social justice and activism.

(The awards will be bestowed at a celebration & cocktail party on the evening of Thursday, October 1, 2009, so be sure and save the date!)

Click here to learn more about the award criteria and download the nomination form.