SINAI Urban Health Institute

Professional Summary
Bijou Hunt joined Sinai Urban Health Institute (SUHI) in the fall of 2008 as the Program Evaluator for Westside Healthy Start (WHS). WHS, a federally funded maternal and child health program, aims to decrease infant mortality and the incidence of low birth weight births through a perinatal initiative targeted at medically and/or socially at risk pregnant women and mothers on Chicago’s West side. As the evaluator of this program, Bijou’s primary responsibilities include assisting in the grant renewal effort, ensuring grant compliance, and the development of evaluation tools to measure the impact of services offered through the WHS program.

 

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.

 

Following the completion of her Master’s degree, Bijou moved to Chicago and took a position as a Research Analyst in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She is excited to be a new addition to SUHI and looks forward to the opportunity to pursue her interests in maternal and child health. 

Education
M.A., Sociology, University of Maryland, 2007
B.A., Spanish and Sociology, University of Iowa, 2003