| 07/18/2008 |
| SUHI currently has a position opening for a community health educator with the Breathing Freedom Smoking Cessation program. To learn more about this position, click here. |
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| 07/16/2008 |
The School-Based Wellness Project recently received $160,000 from the Michael Reese Health Trust and $100,000 from the Polk Bros. Foundation to continue their efforts to improve student health in the Jewish community. The intervention now includes five schools from the Associated Talmud Torahs school system, which translates into over 2000 students in grades K-8 participating. To date, the Michael Reese Health Trust has contributed $360,000 over three years for this project, while the Polk Bros. Foundation has contributed $300,000 during the same time frame. |
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| 07/02/2008 |
| SUHI currently has an opening for a bilingual Project Coordinator with a grant received from the Avon Foundation. To learn more about this position, click here. |
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| 06/04/2008 |
| The Breathing Freedom project has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the American Lung Association of Illinois-Greater Chicago to promote smoking cessation in North Lawndale community. The American Lung Association is dedicated to preventing lung disease and improving lung health. This grant money will be used to help change social norms through media campaigns, Illinois Quitline promotion, and outreach regarding smoking behavior. |
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| 06/02/2008 |
On Sunday, June 1st Sinai Health System was awarded $1 million dollars from the Avon Foundation to continue the patient navigation program and to purchase new mammography equipment. Sinai was one of eight recipients of initial grants from the Avon Walk Chicago that totaled $4,750,000.
This year the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Chicago had 4,000 participants that raised $9.1 million dollars. Each year participants of the walk raise at least $1,800 dollars each and walk up to 39.3 miles over two days to promote awareness and raise money to combat breast cancer. |
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| 04/18/2008 |
Dr. Maureen Benjamins, Senior Epidemiologist and Project Director at SUHI, recently received the Early Investigator Award for Spirituality and Health Research from the Society of Behavioral Medicine. The award was presented at the group's annual meeting in March. Dr. Benjamins has been invited to present her research at next year's annual meeting in Montreal. |
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| 02/07/2008 |
Steve Whitman, Director of SUHI, was interviewed as spokesperson for an examination of black-white disparities in breast cancer mortality among Houston area women. The media interest coincided with the Avon Foundation's Annual Breast Cancer Forum in which Dr. Whitman presented on racial disparities in breast cancer mortality.
To view the newspaper article, click here.
To access Dr. Whitman's presentation, click here.
Dr. Whitman and the SUHI team have published their work on black-white disparities in Chicago and they were asked to do a similar study in Houston. SUHI’s work was also pivotal in the organization of the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force. |
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| 12/31/2007 |
| Dr. Joseph West, Project Director of Breathing Freedom: Working Together to Live Tobacco Free, was recently highlighted in a Chicago Tribune article titled, "African-American Smoking Rates Tied to Menthol, Research Finds." To read this article, click here. |
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| 09/25/2007 |
| SUHI's director, Steve Whitman, was recently interviewed by Chicago magazine about the disparity in breast cancer mortality between Black and White women in Chicago. His comments are published in an article in the October issue of Chicago magazine titled "The Deadly Difference" |
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| 09/14/2007 |
Abigail Silva, MPH, will no longer be working at SUHI full-time as she starts to pursue her doctorate in Epidemiology at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Abigail was considered a leader within SUHI, is a well-respected colleague, and will be greatly missed. We wish Abigail luck as she enters a new phase of her professional career. |
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| 06/05/2007 |
Diana Salgado, a Breast Health Coordinator at Mount Sinai Hospital, was recently highlighted in a Chicago Sun Times article for her work on a project providing navigation services for low-income minority women undergoing breast cancer screening and treatment services at Mount Sinai Hospital. SUHI manages the evaluation of this project, which is funded by the Avon Foundation. |
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| 06/03/2007 |
| The Sinai Urban Health Institute was one, amongst many organizations, recently awarded a grant by the Avon Foundation. The money for each award was raised by the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. For more information about this recent event, please click here. SUHI's award will fund a coordinator position for the Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force and expand navigation services for breast cancer screening and treatment services to the communities of North Lawndale and Humboldt Park. |
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| 04/12/2007 |
| Steve Whitman, Director of SUHI, was recently part of a panel on WTTW's Chicago Tonight program that discussed disparities in breast cancer mortality between Black and White women in Chicago. The panel also discussed what next steps could be undertaken to remedy this disparity. |
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| 01/23/2007 |
| The Chicago Sun Times (January 23, 2007) featured an editorial by Steve Whitman, Director of SUHI, entitled "Breast cancer disparity is cause for worry". |
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