“Most individuals would benefit from better attention from clinicians in the health system on health literacy—most would benefit from better communication on our end,” says CDRP faculty affiliate Valerie Press in Society of Hospital Medicine’s The Hospitalist. “We owe it to our patients to do everything we can to help them understand and identify if they need additional resources.”
Lauren Mitchell, MD, MS, a 2025 graduate of the CDRP PITCH fellowship, researches how CHWs help communities and how to implement programs to provide social care within the healthcare system
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.
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.