“Forced from Home” seeks to personalize the lives of global refugees
By Sheila Burt In the Daley Plaza courtyard, a series of tents portray what life is like for the millions of people around the globe being forced to flee their homes due to [...]
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How to Solve the Opioid Crisis in Chicago: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Recovery
By Elise Meyer For the past two weeks, the Northwestern Public Health Review has been posting summaries of the three-point plan that evolved out of an interdisciplinary [...]
How to Solve the Opioid Epidemic in Chicago: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Harm Reduction
By Elise Meyer Last week marked the first of three posts summarizing the content of a white paper produced from an interdisciplinary roundtable on Chicago-specific responses [...]
Cresting the Arc of the Opioids Epidemic: An Interdisciplinary Approach as the Path Forward
By Elise Meyer Over 140 Americans die every day from drug overdoses, the majority of which are opioid-related, according to new data released by the National Center for [...]
The ongoing discussion: An introduction to the 2017 interdisciplinary roundtable on opioids addiction in Chicagoland
By Nelly Papalambros This piece as well as the event described below are responses to last year’s Opioid Symposium, held at Northwestern. For more information read [...]
Rolling Slowly Towards Social Change
By Jacqueline Patterson, NPHR Blog editor As with other cities across the country, Chicago has strived in the past few years to become more [...]
A Recommendation: The Chicago Public Library
By Margaret Walker, Blog Editor One of our goals here at the NPHR Blog is to spotlight public health organizations within the community. One great organization that may not [...]
Public Health in the News- August 7th, 2016
Global A global public health crisis- the end of mercury pollution?? The Australian based laboratory of chemistry professor, Justin M. Chalker, may have a solution. His lab [...]
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