SkinnyTrees: Lifting Health for All: Recent Episodes
SkinnyTrees
SkinnyTrees: Lifting Health for All – is a podcast from the Simon Research Lab at the Center for Health Equity Transformation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine hearing voices from the research and community world with a focus on health equity. Conversations and interviews will discuss the importance of achieving health equity, highlighting health disparities, and exploring innovative ways to improve health for all.
In this special episode, a ChicagoCHEC Fellows Alumnus -- Maxson Joseph -- talks with two high school students part of the UIC Champions Vaccination Cohort.
UIC Champions is a summer program with its goal of empowering Chicago youth to become community leaders, create pathways to health professions careers and advance health equity. More info at https://twitter.com/uic_champions
Join us at the upcoming event mentioned in the podcast!
Summer Youth Leadership Event: State of the Pandemic: What Youth and their Families Need to Know as Vaccine Eligibility Expands.
Scheduled for Saturday, June 5th from 11am-12pm CST, this event will feature Dr. Geraldine Luna, the Medical Director of the COVID-19 Initiative at the Chicago Department of Public Health and Dr. Melissa Simon, the Director of the Center for Health Equity Transformation.
To register for this event, visit http://bit.ly/June5YLE.
Contact us at:
skinnytreespodcast@gmail.com
skinnytreespodcast.com
@SkinnyTrees312 on Twitter
Join us in this special episode featuring the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (CHEC) Fellows Program 2020 cohort. This program brings undergrad and postbac students together in preparation for careers in social, behavioral, and biomedical research and in health care.
They share with us their experiences with the CHEC Fellows during a pandemic and ongoing social unrest, program highlights and “aha” moments from summer 2020 and how it has enriched their career paths.
Interested in joining ChicagoCHEC program in 2021?
- Applications NOW open until March 1st, 2021:
https://chicagochec.org/opportunities/education-training-programs/research-fellows/
- Find out more at https://chicagochec.org
Background music from FreeMusicArchive.org licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0:
- We Are Stardust by Ketsa
- Mountain Flowers by Siddhartha Corsus
- Ode to Awareness by Siddhartha Corsus
- Gazing by Andy G. Cohen
- maria durch ein dornwald ging by Dee Yan-Key
- Floating in Clouds by Lobo Loco
- Drift Release by Ketsa
- Bye Bye by Crowander
- Slow Rising by Ketsa
- Empire of Light by Siddhartha Corsus
- New Soul by Ketsa
- Flash by Yung Kartz
- Confused by Maikaih Beats
Contact us at:
skinnytreespodcast@gmail.com
skinnytreespodcast.com
@SkinnyTrees312 on Twitter
This episode was recorded on May 11, 2020.
Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing physical distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.
This episode features our co-host Araceli Estrada interviewing Greg Trotter, Senior Public Relations Manager, the spokesperson for the Greater Chicago Food Depository. He was a food business reporter for the Chicago Tribute where he often wrote stories about SNAP benefits and inequities in access to food. He strongly believes that no one should go hungry!
Chicago Greater Food Depository Find Food Map: https://www.chicagosfoodbank.org/find-food/
Donate to the Chicago Greater Food Depository: https://secure2.convio.net/gcfd/site/Donation2?8743.donation=form1&df_id=8743&mfc_pref=T
NOTE: This episode was recorded on January 9th, 2020.
Our guest for this special episode during Hispanic Heritage Month is José López – a prominent community leader and Executive Director of The Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago, which he co-founded in 1973. He has written extensively on the political and social reality of Puerto Ricans in the United States while serving as an adjunct instructor at Northeastern Illinois University, Columbia College and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Your host for this episode is Maggie Nava – a longtime community advocate from our Center for Health Equity Transformation - who currently serves as Site Director for the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative at Northwestern University.
Featured Guest:
- José López, more info and bio available here:
https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/November-2014/Jose-Lopez-Humboldt-Park/
CONTACT US:
– skinnytreespodcast@gmail.com
– twitter.com/skinnytrees312
Outro music:
- "Coco" performed Live at WFMU on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg, 10/26/2015 by Radio Jarocho and Zenen Zeferino Huervo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.
NOTE: This episode was recorded in October 2019.
The SkinnyTrees podcast team took a field trip to an urban farm on Chicago’s south side. Founded in 2017, the Urban Growers Collective (UGC) aims to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in underserved communities. Their vision is to use urban agriculture to cultivate pathways to freedom through food and healing. Their goal is to build economic opportunity for Chicago’s youth; reduce food insecurity, and increase access to affordable fresh produce and healthy food. UGC operates eight urban farms on 11-acers of land predominantly located on Chicago’s South Side.
Guests:
Malcolm Evans, Production Manager
https://urbangrowerscollective.org/team/malcolmevans/
CONTACT US:
– skinnytreespodcast@gmail.com
– twitter.com/skinnytrees312
Outro music provided by:
-JB Positive Music: @jbpositivemusic
This episode was recorded on May 4, 2020.
Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.
This episode features our co-host, Rabih Dahdouh, interviewing Dr. Garth Walker, MD, MPH who is an emergency medicine attending physician at the Jesse Brown Veteran Affairs Hospital. Dr. Walker is post-doctoral trainee at our Center for Health Equity Transformation working with the Northwestern Medicine Emergency Department and Northwestern Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics investigating social determinants of health in firearm injury recidivism and healthcare disparities related to opioid mortalities.
Dr. Walker is also co-founder, chief medical officer and head of innovation for Clinify Inc. A tech platform that utilizes social determinant of health indicators to improve patient engagement, healthcare outcomes and reduce healthcare cost for vulnerable populations. More info here: https://www.clinifyhealth.com/
Note: This episode was recorded on March 12, 2020, just days before the Governor of Illinois instituted a stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus outbreak.
In this episode we connected with Kimberly Soenen (short bio below) to discuss the importance of language in health and her ongoing art exhibit "SOME PEOPLE" (Every)Body. The ongoing project examines the ethics, people, processes, and systems that constitute the maintenance of, and barriers to, health for human beings. With this exhibition, the group of high performing contributing artists, photographers, essayists and physicians are asking the seminal question of our time: How do people define "health insurance," "healthcare,” “Public Health” and "health?”
Contact:
https://www.somepeopleeverybody.com/
@SomePeopleEveryBody
https://www.instagram.com/somepeopleeverybody/
KimberlyJSoenen@Gmail.com
Episode photo caption: Youth. Paul Michael at the Dunes.
Photo by Kimberly J. Soenen.
Outro Music Credits:
Original Music by Wilson Tanner Smith on piano - “Freddie" (2013)
This episode was recorded on April 20th, 2020.
Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.
This episode features our co-host, Ivy Leung, interviewing Grace Chan, a long-time community activist and the executive director of the Coalition for Better Chinese American Community.
Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
*CBCAC Website and Hotline
https://cbcacchicago.org/
*Bridgeport mutual aid system
https://www.facebook.com/GBMAChicago/
*Asian American Advancing Justice: Reporting Hotline
https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/covid19
This episode was recorded on April 9th, 2020.
Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.
This episode features our co-host, Rabih Dahdouh, interviewing Fred Raz, a registered nurse at University of Illinois in Chicago Hospital Health Sciences System. He is currently supporting our city’s efforts to combat coronavirus by administering COVID-19 drive-thru tests.
Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.
Each mini episode will focus on a different community in Chicago to find out how they are coping with these difficult times. This episode features our colleague, Ivy Leung interviewing Dr. Marcus Wong. He is an emergency medicine resident at University of Illinois in Chicago, currently rotating at Advocate Lutheran Hospital located in Park Ridge.
Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.
Each mini episode will focus on a different community in Chicago to find out how they are coping with these difficult times. This episode features our colleague, Araceli Estrada interviewing Renee Flores, she is a registered nurse and a Home Telehealth Care Coordinator at the Department of Veterans Affairs.