Happy holidays from the Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities! As we close out 2025, we hold deep gratitude for the ways our community continued to show up for one another, organizing, questioning, resisting, & advocating in the face of ongoing harm impacting our neighborhoods.

West Garfield Park residents are expected to live on average until 67 years old, compared to 87 in the Loop. This is the widest death gap in Chicago.

Chicagoans! I was part of this project about a decade ago. Highly recommend! The experiences and friendships are lasting gifts. Apply by THIS FRIDAY Nov 14

It is a time to gather, a time to connect, a time to reimagine & plan, a time to act... Join the Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities Fall Partner Gathering! Opp for community & academic researchers to discuss challenges & reimagine what’s possible together. 👉 bit.ly/ARCCFallGathering

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Bad Press is a documentary that will take you through the freedom of the press journey in a Tribal community! A must see for those that care about the role of the press in democracy! Oct 24, Northwestern University, Evanston

join me and my pals at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social where i'll be bringing my patented run-on sentences and cul-de-sac musings to this panel for new doc by the brilliant @samfeder.bsky.social tickets are limited!

Must read @amjpublichealth.bsky.social commentary: “Why Building Power is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity”: lnkd.in/gE-fh_vr

Recommendations in Call to Action: -Sustain & Strengthen Community Partnerships -Protect Academic Freedom & Scientific Integrity -Support Colleagues Facing Threat & Disruption -Support Resilience -Promote Advocacy & Effective Communication brnw.ch/21wWweb

For the public health community, the moral imperative is clear. It must uphold its values to protect the needy, denounce racism & other forms of discrimination, & advocate social justice-regardless of political retribution." From @shwoolf.bsky.social et al. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

"Chicago’s health leaders & hospital CEOs must now step forward as their predecessors once did.... (with) a declaration that hospitals are sanctuaries, not staging grounds for federal raids." Model citywide policy is needed to...rebuild trust in Chicago’s health institutions as safe havens for all

Community Engagement: A Short Course to Optimize Research Endeavors (CE-SCORE) Learn the principles & practices of community-engaged research. Interactive, learner-centered online course that emphasizes practical application, critical reflection, & engagement . Apply by 9/2: lnkd.in/gmPUb9U3

Communication to the public about research findings is more important than ever Check out this fellowship opportunity

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

Let’s talk lung health! 🫁 Join ARCC Seed Grantees Erie Neighborhood House, Drs. Ashley Smith-Nuñez & Marquita Lewis for Breathe Easy— a free, community-centered event on managing asthma & protecting your lungs. 🗓️ July 31 | 🕔 5–6:30 PM | 📍1347 W Erie Scan the QR code to register — all are welcome!

⭐Community Leadership for Community-Driven Research⭐ The Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities is proud to announce the inaugural cohort of Chicagoland Community Research Fellows- a transformative program investing in community leadership for community-driven research & health justice.

We're launching the 8th cohort of our Abolitionist Public Health Network! Learn more & apply by August 1: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Read this amazing work by ARCC Seed Grantee @blackmidwifery.bsky.social

My latest essay in @literaryhub.bsky.social: Mahmoud Khalil, Zohran Mamdani, and the Politics of Vulnerability lithub.com/mahmoud-khal...

🎨 Calling all health researchers! Tired of confusing graphs, chaotic slides, and posters no one reads? 📊📈📉 💡Join us for “Visualizing Health Research” — a hands-on workshop that will give you a toolbox 🧰 to level up your design game. 🧵👇 🧠 Email [email protected] to get on email list.

The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

Call for Patient Perspectives @health.nationalacademies.org seeking testimonies from pediatric patients/families abt benefits of NIH research, improvements to children’s health & well-being, & other considerations for future of pediatric research Submit by Jul 13 survey.alchemer.com/s3/8328252/P...

Community-Engaged Research Conference Wed, Jun 4, 11:30 AM–1:30 PM Register: bit.ly/3SYpoHh Keynote by Joel Rodriguez of Southwest Organizing Project (ARCC Steering Committee member). Community partners, faculty, research staff, trainees are all welcome and encouraged to attend.

Come join me at @npaforg.bsky.social's virtual event, Hear Me Now: Innovative Storytelling in Uncertain Times, on Thursday, May 22, 11-2:30 pm CT RSVP Here: www.patientadvocate.org/events

Grateful for the leadership of the Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) Steering Committee! Since our founding in 2008 through to today, ARCC is driven & inspired by this group! Photos from our May mtg hosted by member, Inner-City Muslim Action Network

Congratulations to my dear colleague and partner, Jhmira Latrice Alexander, MPA (@publicnarrative.bsky.social), on being recognized as a 2025 Leader for a New Chicago! Excited to see you continuing to soar ⭐

Next Friday, May 16, join us at Access Living for the Disability Reproductive Equity Day Celebration! 🎉✨ The event will feature panels, stories of lived experience, & shared health resources—all centering disabled voices. 🕐 1–4PM | 📍115 W. Chicago Ave #DisabilityJustice #ReproductiveEquity

No one deserves detention. No one deserves deportation. No one deserves prison. No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones. No human is illegal. Free them all.

Support community leadership! Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities invites community leaders to apply to Community Research Fellowship's inaugural cohort: 18-month progrm to advance community research in their orgs, communities, & across research landscape bit.ly/ARCCfellows Due May 9

NIH-funded LGBT+ health work has been obliterated. This denies “a small but real percentage of the population answers to critically important questions about their health”, says Shirley Tilghman. “You cannot eliminate a segment of the population by executive order, but you can harm them greatly.”

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can't draw the line at democracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

April 3 from Scholars for Social Justice us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Request to faculty⬇️

This thread shares that UMich, Yale, U of AZ have set aside funds to support researchers who are getting these disgusting grant announcements from NIH… Who else? This small step should spread…

“If we just sit back and allow ourselves to shrink back in the face of darkness and denialism, then we don’t deserve the jobs that we have." @jondoesscience.bsky.social on the need for researchers to speaking out. w/ @hollylynchez.bsky.social + Melissa Simon. Story: www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/r...

Connecting in person with people feels like one of the most helpful things right now. Let's support, share, plan TOGETHER! This Thurs Mar 20 in McKinley Park: bit.ly/Mar20arcc

Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇 - THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity. - It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly. - There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!

Let's gather & organize for health justice! ARCC Community Research Learning Exchange: 3/20 👀 topics/presenters below & at bit.ly/Mar20arcc Connect w/ARCC grantees & '25 Award Winner: PrEP4Teens Learn more abt Community Organizing w/ SWOrganizing Project Palenque LSNA @christiandiaz.bsky.social

#ScienceNotSilence #StandUpForScience2025 Chicago @standupforscience.bsky.social

Nominate Community Changemaker or Org for @publicnarrative.bsky.social inaugural Dr. Timuel D. Black, Jr. Award for Civic Engagement. Celebrates legacy of Dr. Black, historian, educator, & author who advocated for civil rights, social justice, & community empowerment. Due Mar 21 bit.ly/drtimblk

⭐Health Justice & Critical Science in a Time of Oligarchy & Opportunistic Science Denialism: an Ecosocial Analysis⭐ April 10 @uicpublichealth.bsky.social with Social Epidemiologist Nancy Krieger irrpp.uic.edu/events/healt...

⭐Next Wed 3/12: Building a Collective Vision of Liberation⭐ @prisonculture.bsky.social, Beth Richie, Avalon Betts-Gaston in convo about abolition, dismantling prison industrial complex, and what time it is on the clock of the world. irrpp.uic.edu/events/build... @interruptcrim.bsky.social

Very excited to announce our next BIG protest! Please sign up on our Mobilize event page. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...

⭐Investing in community leadership & partnerships⭐ Congrats to 8 grantees of Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) 2025 Cycle 1 Seed Grants to support community-driven research for health equity! Scroll down to Round 18: bit.ly/ARCCgrants Cycle 2 deadline: Apr 22 Grantees in 🧵

Posed to funders but relevant for most: “If we knew in 2 yrs, no more fair elections; media criticizing govt sued/disbanded, journalists jailed; orgs accused of DEI shuttered; protests/ers declared illegal/arrested; & foundations branded terrorism-funding & endowment gets seized, how would we act?”

Come learn more about the amazing PrEP4Teens partnership during their panel on March 20: bit.ly/Mar20arcc

Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities Community Research Learning Exchange: Mar 20 bit.ly/Mar20arcc Panel with ARCC 2025 Award Winner: PrEP4Teens (bit.ly/ARCCaward) & breakouts focused on community organizing strategies for these times & ARCC seed grants (due 4/22. bit.ly/ARCCgrants)

2025 AMPT Connect: Mar 13 Hear from community leaders on how their orgs are choosing to center humanity, lean into joy, & continue moving forward Register now at bit.ly/AMPTConnect