Reflections from labor, delivery, and postpartumBlog Post by Lise E. Fried | August 28, 2018 August was National Breast Feeding Awareness month so I wondered what has changed and what is the same in maternal and child health, including breast feeding practices. I am the Executive Director at the Institute for Community Health, a nonprofit…
Recording available for Ranjani Paradise’s webinar on language data collectionNews by Institute for Community Health | August 21, 2018 Earlier this year, ICH’s Ranjani Paradise was a speaker on a national webinar that was part of the Diversity Dialogue series presented by the American Hospital Association and the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity. The webinar was co-hosted by the Disparities…
Helping vulnerable populations, such as immigrants, through research and evaluation at the Institute for Community HealthBlog Post by Leah Zallman | August 17, 2018 “Pt’s husband and father deported. Pt doing ok.” The message came from a colleague who had seen my patient for an urgent visit. My heart drops every time I get this kind of message, which happens all too often for primary…
Employee spotlight interview: Sharon Touw, MPHBlog Post by Institute for Community Health | August 17, 2018 How would you describe your role at ICH? I am a research and evaluation project manager and an epidemiologist. I spend half my time managing different research and evaluation project and the other half of my time is spent doing…
Leah Zallman’s immigration research is featured in local and national newsNews by Institute for Community Health | August 17, 2018 A new review article by ICH’s Leah Zallman and co-authors from Cambridge Health Alliance and Tufts University was recently cited by several local and national news media outlets. The article explored the current body of research on immigrant’s contribution to…
Bringing order to chaos: ICH’s data servicesBlog Post by Karen Finnegan | July 5, 2018 As an epidemiologist trained in health systems research, I spend much of my time with quantitative data—numbers, statistics, writing code in SAS or R. However, my favorite projects are those which are a jumble of data and require making sense…
