News & Media
The National Collaborative for Health Equity presents the latest news, articles, events and program highlights to help you stay connected and informed.
Canceling Student Debt Will Help Health Care Workers and Advance Racial Justice
By Jesse Mechanic, Truthout (Read...
Dr. Gail Christopher Moderates Simmons University Webinar on “Viewing COVID-19 through THRT Framework”
Dr. Christopher lead panel experts in discussing the inequities seen during COVID-19 through a TRHT Framework. Other panelists included: • José A. Rico, Director Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Greater Chicago • Andrea King...
How Decades of Us Welfare Policies Lifted Up the White Middle Class and Largely Excluded Black Americans
Marguerite Ward Aug 11, 2020, 11:40 AM, https://www.businessinsider.com/ (Read...
5 Key Barriers to Health Opportunities for Latinos
by Julia Weis, @WeisJuliaE, Salud America!...
CHE Cook County Team Hosts Upcoming Virtual Forum on Environmental Justice
#DenyThePermit: Public Health, Democracy, & Environmental Racism Virtual Forum - Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 6 p.m. CDT Join the Collaborative for Health Equity (CHE) Cook County and Health & Medicine Policy Research Group during National...
Evanston, Ill., Leads the Country With First Reparations Program for Black Residents
By Mark Guarino; www.washingtonpost.com Read...
Dr. Gail Christopher Joins TRHT Leaders in a National TRHT Emergency Town Hall: Responding To Anti-Asian Violence
National TRHT Emergency Town Hall: Responding to Anti-Asian...
Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/26/memorandum-condemning-and-combating-racism-xenophobia-and-intolerance-against-asian-americans-and-pacific-islanders-in-the-united-states/ JANUARY 26, 2021 • PRESIDENTIAL...
National Collaborative for Health Equity’s Statement on Last Night’s Violence Against Asian American and Pacific Islanders Community
March 17, 2021 Today we mourn alongside Atlanta’s Asian American Pacific Islander community and for the lives lost during last night’s senseless attack. This hatred, violence and false blame perpetrated on innocent people is tearing at the...
There Were 3,800 Anti-Asian Racist Incidents, Mostly Against Women, in Past Year
By Kimmy Yam; www.nbcnews.com "'There is an intersectional dynamic going on that others may perceive both Asians and women and Asian women as easier targets,' one professor said." (Read...