AHEC

Serving the community - Our programs offer enrichment and new opportunities to community health workers, working professionals, job seekers, school personnel, employers and the communities they serve. Many of our partner organizations provide healthcare services while our AHEC network nurtures a new generation of health professionals and public health experts... Host organization: Chicago AHEC is uniquely situated in the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, a policy research, social justice minded organization that carries on the city's rich and diverse tradition of healthcare advocacy and promotion of health equity. In 1981, as the national political climate shifted to one that put less emphasis on the needs of marginalized populations, Chicago social justice advocate Quentin D. Young, MD with a group of fellow health justice activists, decided to form a health policy think tank to research, educate and convene stakeholders to challenge health inequities. Chicago AHEC carries..

Primary location: United States