Employee spotlight interview: Sarah JalbertBlog Post by Institute for Community Health | January 15, 2020 Tell us about your educational background and career path thus far. I moved to Boston to go to Northeastern. Originally, I wanted to go into International Development work but then I got interested in the justice system, and the inequities…
Leah Zallman presented Grand Rounds at Johns Hopkins and a Brown Bag at the Urban InstituteNews by Institute for Community Health | January 13, 2020 This past weekend, ICH’s Leah Zallman presented Grand Rounds at the Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine on “Immigrants and health care: who gives?”. On the same day, Leah Zallman also did a Brown Bag at the Urban Institute on the…
Evaluating advocacy workBlog Post by Sofía Ladner | January 8, 2020 I came to ICH with a great interest in health policy research, and was happy to know after starting that I would be working with a team (Carrie Fisher and Leah Zallman) to evaluate a program that supported health advocacy.…
ICH welcomes new Executive Director, Sarah K. JalbertNews by Institute for Community Health | January 7, 2020 After an extensive and rigorous search, we are proud to announce that Sarah K. Jalbert, MS, MA has joined ICH as our new Executive Director. Sarah has over 22 years of experience as a public health researcher and evaluator. She…
Reflections on the AEA 2019 annual conference: Paths to the Future of EvaluationBlog Post by Ranjani Paradise | December 24, 2019 In November, Carrie Fisher and I attended the American Evaluation Association’s annual conference, which was themed “Paths to the Future of Evaluation”. Carrie and I gave several presentations about ICH’s work and attended a wide range of sessions about evaluation…
Washington Post article cites ICH immigrant researchNews by Institute for Community Health | November 14, 2019 A recent Washington Post article cites a research article by ICH’s Leah Zallman titled, “Care For America’s Elderly and Disabled People Relies on Immigrant Labor.” The Washington Post article, “The Health 202: U.S. to lose thousands of health-care workers if…
