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Rosalind Franklin University Announces Founding Director of Michael Reese Foundation Center for Health Equity Research

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amanda M. Simanek, PhD, MPH, has been named founding director of the Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation Center for Health Equity Research at Rosalind Franklin University (RFU).

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  • NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amanda M. Simanek, PhD, MPH, has been named founding director of the Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation Center for Health Equity Research at Rosalind Franklin University (RFU).
  • The university announced in March that plans to establish a health equity research center were moving forward with a generous grant from the Michael Reese Research and Education Foundation.
  • Together, these cores will foster research collaborations that aim to ameliorate health inequities and prevent adverse health outcomes across the lifespan.
  • The Center for Health Equity Research will take up this call by facilitating research projects that address upstream social determinants of health and test outcome-based interventions aimed at reducing health inequities in Lake County, Illinois.