On June 5 and 6, 2025, the UChicago Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy in partnership with the University of Chicago Office of Research and the Cancer Center, hosted Chicago CARE (Collecting and Aligning Research to Achieve Health Equity), one of 18 symposia across the United States to identify problems and strategize together on solutions to achieve health equity.
Jonathan Ozik delivers the plenary lecture “Health Behaviors and Information Diffusion: An Agent-based Modeling Perspective” at the Mt Hood Diabetes Challenge
Eric Polley delivers the plenary lecture “Emulating Diabetes Clinical Trials using Medical Claims Data” at the Mt Hood Diabetes Challenge on Wednesday, June 25
This June, the CDRP will host the Mt. Hood Diabetes Challenge, an international conference for researchers and policy analysts working in health economics and disease simulation modeling in the field of diabetes.
“I was seeing the rise in cases not only at the University of Chicago but across the city and nationally. I thought, ‘This is a disease that’s preventable and treatable—one shot of penicillin, or at most three—and it’s cured. Why is this still happening?’”
Join a national conversation on health equity on May 5 and May 9
Are GLP-1 drug benefits worth their enormous cost? The answer right now is no, according to a new study published in JAMA Health Forum by CDRP researchers Jennifer Hwang, Neda Laiteerapong, Elbert Huang, and David D. Kim
Clinicians should consider NOO syphilis even in persons who do not have HIV and who are not MSM reports CDC Notes from the Field coauthored by PITCH Fellow John “Jack” Flores
CDRP faculty affiliate Monica Peek, Ellen H. Block Professor for Health Justice of Medicine and Associate Director of the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translational Research at the University of Chicago, discusses barriers to care for Black patients with Type 2 Diabetes