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  • Black History Month
  • Announcement
  • Publications
  • SAVE THE DATE: Qualitative Methods Workshop for Community Partners
  • Buehler Center Staff Profile - Meet a team member

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Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. Also known as African American History Month, the event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. Other countries around the world, including Canada and the United Kingdom, also devote a month to celebrating Black history.

ANNOUNCEMENT 

We would like to welcome the entire IVDRS and SUDORS team to the Buehler Center of Health Policy and Economics. To meet the team please visit IVDRS.

PUBLICATIONS

JMIR Publications | Original paper:

Surveillance Metrics of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Central Asia: Longitudinal Trend Analysis

"SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the global COVID-19 pandemic, has severely impacted Central Asia; in spring 2020, high numbers of cases and deaths were reported in this region. The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is currently breaching the borders of Central Asia. Public health surveillance is necessary to inform policy and guide leaders; however, existing surveillance explains past transmissions while obscuring shifts in the pandemic, increases in infection rates, and the persistence of the transmission of COVID-19.." -- JMIR Publication

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Qualitative Methods Workshop for Community Partners

This two-part session will provide an introductory overview of qualitative methods including types of qualitative data, tool creation, data collection methods, analysis, and provide opportunities to apply this learning through practice. The sessions will focus on qualitative methods most relevant to health-related community programming so there will be a heavy focus on preparing and conducting interviews. The second session will focus on learning from practice exercise experiences and analyzing interview and focus-group data. This training is designed to be completed as a set, with learning from the first session applied and revisited in the second session. The sessions are highly interactive and practice exercises will be assigned for completion on your own during the week between sessions. 


This series is open to everyone but designed for community organizations. This training is co-hosted by Northwestern's Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) and Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics and will be led by ARCC Steering Committee Member Sarah Welch, Director of Evaluation Research in the Buehler Center.

Buehler Center Staff Highlight

  

Meet Edward Boone,

Edward “Ed” Boone, Community Outreach Coordinator for the Illinois Violent Death Reporting System (IVDRS) and Statewide Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS), at the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics, has spent 40 years in community outreach. 
 
He started outreach work by volunteering in a community center in Cabrini-Greene public housing development. Ed provided volunteer outreach services for day camp programs and after school activities.

After many years working in the community, he went on to work 13 years at Lurie Children’s Hospital in various departments. He volunteers at Chicago park districts serving advisory councils and supporting nonprofit organizations on the west side.

He is currently a part of the West Side Opioid and Heroin Task Force convened by State Rep. La Shawn Ford, spreading awareness of the opioid crisis and encouraging block by block Naloxone (Narcan) training in the community. 

We thank Ed for all the wisdom and knowledge he brings to our team in violence and overdose prevention efforts. 

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