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The Power of Storytelling: Giving Life to Voices and Data
How can we use storytelling and data to empower community members, shape community vision, and make our work come alive to the people we want to influence? When personal stories from community members are blended with data and statistics, the combination can be a powerful tool for change in a community. Join us as we learn how a 'Living Storybook’ portrays community member voices, personal...
This Year’s Rankings Explore Severe Housing Cost Burden and Health
The County Health Rankings show us that the where we live makes a difference in how well and how long we live. Our health is influenced by many things—a good job, a quality education, and safe places to play—and all of these factors are linked to where we live: our home.
A safe, secure, and affordable place to call home is the foundation for good health and well-being....
This Year’s Rankings Show Differences in Health and Opportunity by Place and Race
For nearly a decade, our annual County Health Rankings have shown that where we live makes a difference in how well and how long we live. This year, our analyses find that meaningful health gaps persist not only by place, but also by race and ethnicity.
These gaps are largely influenced by differences in opportunities – from a lack of access to quality health care to a lack of safe,...
This year’s webinar series covers ways to work in solidarity
This year’s webinars will cover themes such as loneliness and isolation, the injustice of poverty, democracy, the criminal justice system, healthy aging supports and disability rights.
Tracking COVID-19 in Near Real Time: Open-Source Data Tool Shows the Health, Social, and Economic Effects of COVID-19
Since COVID-19 struck the United States, there’s been a constant call for real-time, local-level data. The University of Chicago Center for Spatial Data Science’s US COVID Atlas is helping to answer that call.
Tracking COVID-19: Recently Updated US COVID Atlas Offers More Complete Picture of the Pandemic Experience
The US COVID Atlas, created by the University of Chicago, is a robust data resource measuring everything from the number of COVID cases, deaths, vaccinations, and hospitalizations, to identifying where community clinics are located, and analyzing and defining trends happening over time.
Transforming Narratives to Create Racial and Health Equity
Narratives around race can give rise to policies and systems that exacerbate and reproduce inequities. The result can create stark differences by race in how well and how long people live. Just what are narratives? How are they created? Why is it important to transform them? We will explore these questions and more during this webinar.