The Collaborating Research Center (CRC) at the University of Chicago is housed in the University of Chicago Urban Labs, an organizational structure within the university led by a multidisciplinary team that seeks to develop, test, and scale interventions to improve the lives of urban residents as part of a cross-sectoral approach in health, poverty, crime, education, and energy and the environment. Taking advantage of this cross-sectoral approach, the Center will address the address Systems for Action Research Agenda Priority Area #1; investigating the implementation and impact of strategies designed to achieve alignment, collaboration, and synergy across delivery and financing systems and Priority Area #2; investigating the implementation and impact of strategies designed to reduce and eliminate health inequities through cross-system alignment, collaboration, and synergy.
The Signature Research Study (SRS) of the CRC, the University of Chicago Comprehensive Care, Community and Culture Program (C4P) will mobilize resources across sectors to address complex social determinants of health by enhancing patient access to support from community health workers and to educational, cultural, and arts opportunities. Building on work from the lab’s Comprehensive Care Physician Program, which provides socioeconomically vulnerable patients at high risk of hospitalization the ability to receive care from the same physician in the clinic and the hospital, C4P will expand the connection between providers and patients with the intention to help them lead healthier and more satisfying lives.
Grant ID:
73487
Grant Type:
Collaborative Research Center
Start Date:
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
End Date:
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
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X:\ccphssr\CCPHSSR\S4A Coordinating Center\Collaborating Research Centers\73487 U ChicagoThe Collaborating Research Center (CRC) at the University of Chicago is housed in the University of Chicago Urban Labs, an organizational structure within the university led by a multidisciplinary team that seeks to develop, test, and scale interventions to improve the lives of urban residents as part of a cross-sectoral approach in health, poverty, crime, education, and energy and the environment. Taking advantage of t