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Dr. John H.P. Bridges, a health economist from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, visits the University of Chicago.
June 9, 2008

Finding Answers, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation housed in CHeSS, awards more than $2.5 million to develop interventions aimed at reducing gaps in health care among U.S. racial and ethnic groups.
May 1, 2008

Dr. Philip Clarke visits from the University of Sydney, Australia. Dr. Clarke's research interests include developing methods to value the benefits of improving access to health care, health inequalities and the use of simulation models in health economic evaluation of management strategies for diabetes.
April 14, 2008

Up to $25,000 available through the Campus and Community Health Disparities Pilot Research Grants Program, sponsored by the Department of Medicine.
March 7, 2008

Over 175 students, faculty, staff, and community members attend the University of Chicago screening of the PBS documentary, Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
March 4, 2008

The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics conference is hosting a conference: Conscience and Clinical Practice: Medical Ethics in the Face of Moral Controversy. It will bring together a renowned group of scholars in the fields of medicine, bioethics, law and moral and political philosophy to discuss the role of conscience in the practice of medicine. RSVP by March 4th.
February 29, 2008

Dr. Monica Peek, a faculty member of the CHeSS Program in Health Disparities Research and Training, speaks about how diabetes affects minority communities during a panel discussion sponsored by pre-med students and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs.
February 18, 2008

The Center for Health and the Social Sciences Director, David Meltzer, was selected to sit on the committee that will make recommendations for developing and implementing national health promotion and disease prevention objectives for Healthy People 2020.
February 1, 2008

CHeSS was selected host the 19th Annual Health Economics Conference. The invitational conference will be held March 20-21, 2008 in Chicago and will feature discussions about cutting edge research in pharmaceutical economics, including Medicare Part D.
December 20, 2007

Systematic Review of Current Disparities Research Interventions Identifies Successful Strategies for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
October 11, 2007

$4 million AHRQ grant supports research to improve hospital care
October 3, 2007

For some diabetics, burden of care rivals complications of disease
September 27, 2007

Former Director of the FDA to speak at Regis J. Fallon Health and Law Lecture
April 19, 2007

Center Director highlighted in University of Chicago Magazine
October 6, 2006