Announcing CHJ's Strategic Plan 2021-2026

About the Collaboratory

The UIC School of Public Health Collaboratory  for  Health  Justice is dedicated to enhancing reciprocal engagement between the community and UIC faculty, students, and staff. Our emphasis is on connecting people to each other and to resources that will ultimately improve their public health research, teaching, and practice. We strive to advance health justice—that all people would have the power and resources to have agency over their health, which requires addressing systems of oppression such as classism, racism, sexism and xenophobia.

Mission

Our mission is to support academic-community partnerships by facilitating the meaningful participation of broad stakeholders; fostering representation & presence in academic settings; and providing training and technical assistance for integrating community engagement across research, teaching and practice.

Vision

Our vision is health justice attained through active participation of broad stakeholders in the UIC School of Public Health through research, teaching and practice.

Leadership

Interim Associate Director
Jeni Hebert-Beirne
Interim Associate Director
Community Engagement Fellow
Alexis Grant
Community Engagement Fellow
Collaboratory Coordinator
Maggie Acosta
Collaboratory Coordinator
Chicago COVID-19 Contact Tracing Corps Coordinator
Melissa Martin
Chicago COVID-19 Contact Tracing Corps Coordinator
Research Specialist, Collaboratory
Glenna Sullivan
Research Specialist, Collaboratory
Research Specialist, Collaboratory
Leslie Gates-Durr
Research Specialist, Collaboratory

Our Team

Research Assistant, Collaboratory
Daisy Magana
Research Assistant, Collaboratory
Doctoral Fellow, ChiTracing
Ayo Olagoke
Doctoral Fellow, ChiTracing
Research Assistant, ChiTracing
Marissa Catalano
Research Assistant, ChiTracing
Research Assistant, ChiTracing
Concetta Reda
Research Assistant, ChiTracing
Research Assistant, ChiTracing
Mayra Diaz
Research Assistant, ChiTracing
Research Assistant, ChiTracing
Kelli Wozniakowski
Research Assistant, ChiTracing

Implementation Task Force

Thank you to our Implementation Task Force who provided strategic direction from our inception through Summer 2020.

  • Susan Altfeld, PhD

    Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

  • Antoniah Lewis-Reese

    Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives

  • Kaye Oberhausen

    Assistant Dean of Advancement

  • Eve Pinsker

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences

  • Amber Uskali

    Assistant Director, P3RC Center