SINAI Urban Health Institute
Staff
« back to the listBijou Hunt, MA
Epidemiologist
Professional Summary
Bijou Hunt joined Sinai Urban Health Institute (SUHI) in the fall of 2008 as the Program Evaluator for Westside Healthy Start (WHS). In October 2010, Bijou transitioned to the role of Evaluation Manager on the Helping Her Live: Gaining Control of Breast Cancer project. Helping Her Live (HHL) is an Avon-funded community-based navigation program that takes traditional patient navigation from the hosptial to the community in an effort to eliminate racial/ethnic inequities to care. In addition to her responsibilities to the HHL Project, Bijou is also the point person for SUHI's work with vital records data, which includes analyzing both birth and death files for the Chicago area.
Bijou Hunt joined Sinai Urban Health Institute (SUHI) in the fall of 2008 as the Program Evaluator for Westside Healthy Start (WHS). In October 2010, Bijou transitioned to the role of Evaluation Manager on the Helping Her Live: Gaining Control of Breast Cancer project. Helping Her Live (HHL) is an Avon-funded community-based navigation program that takes traditional patient navigation from the hosptial to the community in an effort to eliminate racial/ethnic inequities to care. In addition to her responsibilities to the HHL Project, Bijou is also the point person for SUHI's work with vital records data, which includes analyzing both birth and death files for the Chicago area.
While receiving her Master’s degree in Sociology at the University of Maryland, Bijou specialized in Demography and Gender, Work, and Family. She worked on various projects, including “Designing New Models for Explaining Family Change and Variation” (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) and “Marriage, Employment, and Family Functioning, Conceptual Frameworks for Interventions” (Urban Institute). Her Master’s thesis examined racial/ethnic variation in the gender division of household labor.
Education
M.A., Sociology, University of Maryland, 2007
B.A., Spanish and Sociology, University of Iowa, 2003
M.A., Sociology, University of Maryland, 2007
B.A., Spanish and Sociology, University of Iowa, 2003
Select Publications:
- Hunt, BR. Whitman, S. Maternal Smoking in Chicago: A Community-Level Analysis Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2011 Feb; 22:194-210.