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Rental Assistance Program from Cook County
Applications Open: Emergency Rental Assistance Program Applications are now open for the Cook County Emergency Rental Assistance program. It pays up to 12 months of missed rent and utilities payments and up to 3 months of future rent payments. Payments will be made directly to your landlord and utility company. Apply online. Applications open March 11, 2021 […]
Muslim American Healthcare & Spiritual Needs (MAHSN) Survey
Seeking to understand the healthcare needs of muslim patients with regard to hospital accommodations. INITIATIVE ON ISLAM AND MEDICINE As-Salaamu Alaykum, Thank you for taking this survey. We greatly appreciate your investing time in helping us learn about the experiences of Muslims interacting with the American healthcare system. The survey consists of three parts: spiritual […]
Volunteer at a Vaccine Site!
CIOGC is working with local departments of public health to offer the Covid-19 vaccine potentially at various Masjid locations. We are recruiting medical and non-medical volunteers to assist with this effort. If you are interested in volunteering please fill out this form. Once our vaccination site is confirmed we will send out an online form […]
COVID-19 and Pregnancy Study (CAPS) Survey
Researchers from the University of Illinois (Dr. Kamal Eldeirawi, Dr. Laurie Quinn, and Dr. Victoria Persky) are requesting your participation in the Coronavirus/COVID-19 and Pregnancy Study (CAPS) to help understand how the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting women during pregnancy. If you are 18 years of age or older and currently pregnant or have given birth […]
Ask A Doc!
Join our weekly multi-lingual live sessions every Saturday from 4-5 pm! Ask COVID-19 questions to our health experts via live on Zoom and Youtube. Register Here! Scan the QR Code with your phone camera! Join our Youtube Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR0E34mt1CYm5N8SstoYWfA
How Racism is Related to Health Inequities
Recent studies show that racism may influence health inequities. As individuals grow from infancy into old age, they encounter social institutions that may create new exposures to racial bias. Yet, few studies have considered this idea fully. We suggest a framework that shows how racism and health inequities may be viewed from a life course […]
EMPART Press Release
A Community Health Engagement Project
CHW Training Program
This is a specialized training program for healthcare professionals to build self-competence as community health workers, in order to connect mosque communities with new and ongoing patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) projects through outreach, health education, social support, and advocacy to build the trust necessary for dissipation of health disparities relevant to mosque-communities.
Project Kickoff Meeting
Official kickoff meeting of the EMPART Project.