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Ranjani Paradise featured in RIZE MA’s newsletter: View from the Field: Findings of the Boston Overdose Linkage to Treatment Study (BOLTS)

News by Institute for Community Health | December 15, 2022

ICH’s Director of Evaluation Ranjani Paradise was featured in RIZE Massachusetts Foundation’s December 2022 newsletter. Ranjani wrote a piece about findings from the Boston Overdose Linkage to Treatment Study (BOLTS), which ICH led with funding from RIZE and collaborators from…

Thinking about Trauma: Learnings from the NCTSN Conference

Blog Post by Erin McPherson and Amanda Robinson | November 22, 2022

At the end of August 2022, we, Erin McPherson and Amanda Robinson, attended the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Conference in Baltimore at the invitation of our partners at the Justice Resource Institute (JRI). We are part of the…

Come see ICH’s presentations at the APHA and AEA conferences

News by Institute for Community Health | November 4, 2022

Join us at American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting in Boston, MA, November 6th-9th! Reasons for initiating and continuing drug use: findings from qualitative interviews with opioid overdose survivors; Poster; 11/6/22 at 1:00pm The Intersection of ADHD, Race, and…

Vote “Yes on 4” for National Immigrants Day

Blog Post by Jessica Santos | October 28, 2022

Two years ago, physician and public health researcher Dr. Leah Zallman wrote this beautiful blog sharing her reflections on National Immigrants Day. She reminded us how we are all interconnected and encouraged us to exercise our right and privilege to vote on…

Leveraging institutional partnerships to promote equity in the CHA workforce

Blog Post by Roxanne James and Emily Hahn and Sharon Touw | July 12, 2022

The frontline healthcare workforce at Cambridge Health Alliance is highly racially and ethnically diverse, but these employees historically have had fewer professional and educational advancement opportunities than other segments of the workforce. From July to December 2021, ICH engaged in…

Reflections from interviewing overdose survivors who were living on the street

Blog Post by Ranjani Paradise and the BOLTS research team | April 18, 2022

Hearing participants’ stories was deeply moving and powerful for our team, and we recently reflected on this work and what we learned from participants. You can read perspectives from some of our study team members here, centered around a common theme of how social determinants of health and substance use disorders are deeply intertwined.

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