BRIDGES A SEMI-ANNUAL NEWSLETTER FROM THE P3RC WELCOME Welcome to the first semi-annual newsletter of the UIC School of Public Health Policy, Practice and Prevention Research Center (P3RC). At the P3RC, we envision improvements in population health and equity through a paradigm shift that builds capacity and bridges practice, translation and research for sustainable and effective policies and programs, and supportive systems and environments for all. To this end, our leadership and
Read the UIC SPH Healthviews feature on the P3RC titled, Evidence, Translation and Impact Take Center Stage. The article will run in the November edition of Healthviews magazine.
staff have been engaged in many exciting projects since our launch in October, 2019.
PROJECTS Healthy CPS Network Initiative Our Core Research Project is a collaboration between the P3RC and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and is led by Jamie Chriqui and Elizabeth Jarpe-Ratner at UIC and Jamie Tully, Tarrah DeClemente, and Syretta Shealey at CPS. The Healthy CPS Network Initiative assesses the feasibility and impact of using a Healthy CPS Network Specialist to implement aspects of the CDC’s Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model in a regional network of schools and students. F0r more information, view the project one pager.
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Other CDC Prevention Research Center Projects Heather Prendergast leads the Improving Cancer Survival and Reducing Treatment Variations with Protocols for Emergency Care (ICARE) Special Interest Project. Jamie Chriqui and her team are partnering colleagues at
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Building Illinois' Leadership Policy
the University of Massachusetts Medical Center to co-lead the CDC’s Physical
and Practice Capacity Initiative Led by Christina Welter, the P3RC is engaging with the Illinois Department of Public Health to
Activity Policy Research and Evaluation Network(PAPREN) Coordinating Center.
develop their Strategic Plan, State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP), and Comprehensive State Health Assessment (SHA). P3RC staff are conducting a review of the 93 Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs (IPLANs) in the state to assess alignment around health department priorities and strategies, and to identify and provide opportunities for leadership and learning.
Additional P3RC Projects Evaluation of Adolescent Health Promotion in Chicago Public Schools, led by Elizabeth Jarpe-Ratner Evaluation of Local-Level Sweetened Beverage Taxation in the US, led by Lisa Powell
COVID-19 Response In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, P3RC faculty and staff have been heavily involved in providing critical response support throughout Illinois. In addition to UIC SPH’s coordination of the UIC contact tracing initiative, the P3RC’s Welter and Steve Seweryn worked with the Illinois Department of Public health to strategically strengthen and expand its COVID-19 incident command system. With funding from the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, the UIC SPH and the P3RC will also colead contact tracing services for the City of Chicago alongside Malcolm X College, NORC at the University of Chicago, and the Sinai Urban Health Institute [information on Cook County grant].
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PUBLIC HEALTH LEARNING The P3RC hosts high quality trainings on our learning management system, Public Health Learning. Trainings focus on creating evidence-based policy, programs, systems, and environmental changes (PPSE) as well as timely resources for health practitoners, including contact tracing modules, trainings on health equity, and more. Select trainings are linked below.
Building Capacity for Evidence-based Public Health Policy, Practice, Systems, and Environmental Change Advocacy Communications for Policy, Systems and Environmental Change Applying Systems Thinking to Public Health
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Economic Evaluation Foundations of Public Health Practice Introduction to Systems Thinking Leadership and Influence
Contact Tracing NWCPHP Every Contact Counts: Contact Tracing for Public Health Professionals JHU COVID-19 Contact Tracing ASTHO Making Contact: A Training for COVID-19 Contact Tracers
P3RC SPOTLIGHT
Invited Commentary on American Heart Association Policy Statment and Science Advisory Read Jamie Chriqui’s invited commentary on the American Heart Association's built environment, active travel, and active living policy statement and science advisories here.
P3RC Research Brief Receives International Coverage A new P3RC research brief shows that ZIP code-level data on COVID-19 deaths can obscure the health inequities in Chicagoland long-term care facilities. Following the publication of the research brief, co-author Paul Simbanis was featured in an interview with the South Koreabased news program, Global Insight.
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P3RC RECOGNITION
P3RC Affiliate Chelsea Singleton receives K01 award from NIH Singleton received a K01 award from the National Institutes of Health for her work studying the relationship between violence and nutrition. Before securing a faculty position at University of Illinois Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, Singleton provided critical leadership on the P3RC's work around nutrition. Learn more.
P3RC ICARE PI Heather Prendergast receives COVID-19 Pilot Grant from CCTS
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Read more about the Center for Translational Science COVID-19 Rapid Response Pilot Grant series and Prendergast’s study, Racial, Ethnic and gender disparities Among a COVID-19 hyperTensive population (REACT).
P3RC Associate Director Christina Welter named Director of DrPH Program Welter was named the new Director of SPH's Doctor of Public Health Leadership program. Read more about Welter here.
P3RC Research Assistant Wins Award at Virtual Poster Competition Mary Cleary, P3RC Healthy CPS Network Initiative research assistant, won best poster in the master’s scholarly public health practice category at SPH Research and Practice Scholarship Day. See her poster here.
Prendergast Wins Prestigious Fellowship Heather Prendergast was named a University of Illinois President’s Executive Leadership Program Fellow. This highly competitive fellowship provides professional development and opportunities to foster systems leadership at the university level. Read more about the award and see the other fellows here.
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P3RC Publications Journal Articles
Epilepsy Pandey DK, Levy J, Serafini A, Habibi M, Song W, Shafer P, et al. Enhancing epilepsy selfmanagement and quality of life for adults with epilepsy with varying social and educational backgrounds using PAUSE to Learn Your Epilepsy Epilepsy Behav. 2020;111 E-Pub Ahead of Print.
Nutrition El-Sayed OM, Pipito AA, Leider J, Chriqui JF, Powell, LM. An assessment of food store compliance with the Cook County sweetened beverage tax. Public Health Management and Practice. 2020; 26(4):E20-3. Chriqui, JF, Sansone, CN, Powell, LM. The sweetened beverage tax in Cook County, Illinois: Lessons from a failed effort. American Journal of Public Health. 2020, e1-e8. Available online: PHOTO
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https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305640. Zenk, SN, Leider, J, Pugach, O, Pipito, AA, Powell, LM. Changes in beverage marketing at stores following the Oakland sugar-sweetened beverage tax. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2020; 58(5):648-656 Powell LM, Leider, J. The impact of a sweetened beverage tax on beverage volume sold in Cook County, Illinois, and its border area. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2020; 172(6):390-397. Powell LM, Leider, J. The impact of Seattle's sweetened beverage tax on beverage prices and volume sold. Economics and Human Biology. 2020; 37:100856. Powell LM, Leider, J, and Léger, PT. The impact of the Cook County, IL, sweetened beverage tax on beverage prices Economics and Human Biology 2020; 37:100855. Marinello S, Pipito AA, Leider J, Pugach O, Powell LM. The impact of the Oakland sugarsweetened beverage tax on bottled soda and fountain drink prices in fast-food restaurants. Preventive Medicine Reports. 2020; 17:101034. Powell LM, Singleton CR, Li Y, Steeves EA, Castro IA, Grigsby-Toussaint D, et. al. Changes to SNAP-authorized retailer stocking requirements and the supply of foods and beverages in lowincome communities in seven U.S. states. Transl. Behav. Med. 2019;9(5):857–864.
Research Briefs
Emergency Management Blaser M., Cailas M.D., Canar J., Cooper B., Geraci P., Osiecki K., Sambanis A. Analyzing COVID-19 Mortality Within the Chicagoland Area: Data Limitations and Solutions. Research Brief No. 117. Policy, Practice and Prevention Research Center, University of Illinois Chicago. Chicago, IL. July 2020.
Nutrition Chriqui JF, Asada Y, Pipito A, Powell LM. Revenue generated from the Oakland sugarsweetened beverage tax, July 2017 – December 2019. Research Brief No. 116. Policy, Practice and Prevention Research Center, University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL. March 2020. El-Sayed OM, Leider J, Schermbeck RM, Powell LM. Distribution of volume sold of calorically and noncalorically sweetened beverages: evidence from two U.S. cities. Research Brief No. 115. Policy, Practice and Prevention Research Center, University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL. February 2020.
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