Leadership and Coaching with the UIC MCHP

Hi all.  Below is a link to a short 22 minute video ‘Celebrate What’s Right With the World.’  You do not have to purchase this video…you can watch it directly on this site.  This is what our Leadership and Coaching for MCH Professionals program means to me [http://mchatuic.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/coaching/].  It speaks to our capacity to be [...]

Martha May Eliot: Life and Legacy

Martha May Eliot was an amazing woman devoted to public health and maternal and child health.  Her work and research explored issues at the heart of social medicine.  In 1964, the American Public Health Association established the Martha May Eliot Award to bring recognition to the field of maternal and child health and to honor [...]

Infant Mortality and Racism in Chicago: Follow-Up

In late April 2010, the UIC MCHP and the UIC Mid-America Public Health Training Center hosted a workshop session on Infant Mortality and Racism with Laurin Kasehagen, MA, PhD.  We had tremendous audience interest in engaging in a follow-up discussion to address these issues in Chicago/Illinois.  A large number of audience participants is scheduled to [...]

1st Annual UIC MCH Retreat and Alumni Reception

For all of our MCH Alumni…Please Save the Date!  We would love to see all of you! 1st Annual UIC MCH Retreat and Alumni Reception Date:  July 19, 2010 Time: 5:30-7:30pm Location: Hyatt Lodge (Hamburger University), 2815 Jorie Boulevard, Oak Brook, IL The UIC MCHP is sponsoring Leadership, Legacy, and Community:  A Retreat to Advance [...]

Illinois Women’s Health Registry

On Monday, May 10, Sarah Bristol-Gould, PhD, Director of Research Programs for the Institute for Women’s Health Research at Northwestern University gave a presentation on the Illinois Women’s Health Registry.  Click here to view slides from the presentation: http://www.uic.edu/sph/mch/ArchivedEvents.htm The Registry is a database containing answers to a confidential health survey (symptoms, conditions, diseases, family [...]

Leadership Development and Coaching for MCH Professionals

Leadership Development and Coaching For MCH Professionals A Program for MCH Professionals in DHHS Regions V & VII Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa PROGRAM OVERVIEW The Maternal and Child Health Program (MCHP) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is committed to providing easily accessible, engaging, and efficient leadership development [...]

How do I subscribe to the blog?

There are two ways to subscribe to the UIC MCH Program blog: 1) Email Subscription.  On the top left of the blog you will see a box where you can type in your email address.  If you do this, blog updates will be sent to your email inbox.  You may want these notices to go [...]

Infant Mortality is a Civil Rights Issue

The below story is re-printed from WKNO-FM: NPR for the Mid-South.  Theresa Chapple is one of our MCH program graduates.  Theresa works for the Memphis, TN, Shelby County’s Fetal & Infant Mortality Review. A link to the audio interview can be found here: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wkno/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1607863/Mid-South.News/Infant.Mortality.Is.A.Civil.Rights.Issue *************************************************************************************** MEMPHIS, TN (WKNO) – Here in Shelby County babies die [...]

Infant Mortality and Racism

On Friday, April 30, 2010, the UIC Maternal and Child Health Program and the UIC Mid-America Public Health Training Center collaborated to host a workshop entitled:  Infant Mortality and Racism Action Learning Collaborative:  Community Recommendations For Reducing Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality. Our incredibly gifted speaker and expert was Laura Kasehagen, MA, PhD, CDC Senior [...]

July Retreat: Opening Keynote and Plenary Sessions

Hi everyone!  We hope you will agree that the 3rd annual UIC MCH Leadership, Legacy, and Community:  A Retreat to Advance MCH Scholarship and Practice is going to be a program not to miss.  Below are the descriptions of the opening Keynote Address and Plenary sessions.  Very exciting! Paradigm Shifts in Public Health and MCH:  [...]