Student Research Opportunities
Are you a student who is interested in getting involved in community-based health equity-focused research?
We can help make connections to community collaborators and help mentor projects.
Fill-out this form to tell us more about the health equity-related areas you are interested in and we will contact you to follow up.
Recent Student Projects
Summer 2025
Summer Student Research Projects
Tan Nyugen, rising M2 in the Chicago Medical School (CMS), will be carrying out a project which aims to 1) identify geographic areas in Lake County, IL that would most benefit from teleopthalmology services, and 2) examine whether a mismatch exists between need and availability of technology to support its use such as reliable access to internet and/or devices. |
   Rising M2s in CMS, Lanie Lobdell (left), Hannah Levenstein (center), and Alpha Acapulco (right) will be continuing our Center’s work in partnership with the Live Well Lake County Access to Care team, identifying gaps between existing health education efforts of providers and the health information needs of community members, and making recommendations for community health curriculum topics to be taken up by the coalition. |
  Morgan Alpert (left) and Matthew Alpert (right), rising M2s in CMS will be assessing the role of spatial access to cancer-related healthcare in explaining race/ethnic inequities in colorectal cancer prevalence across areas of Lake County, IL. |
  Rising M2s in CMS, SJ Bennet (left) and Katlin Jacoby (right) will be utilizing data from All of Us to assess socioeconomic patterns of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist prescriptions, including differences in prescriptions for those with and without comorbidities such as diabetes and obesity. |
    Rising M2s in the Chicago Medical School (CMS), Aavia Shetty (far left), Iris Siguenza (middle left), and Sunay Kandi (middle right), as well as College of Health Professions Psychology Doctoral student, Jessica Yunez (right), will help analyze data collected via our pilot study in the Interprofessional Community Clinic which aims to assess the feasibility and acceptability of an intervention addressing food insecurity among patients. |
   Jessica Thompson (left), Shin Park (middle), and Heena Patel (right), rising M2s in CMS, will be carrying-out a project assessing the role of spatial access to reproductive medicine providers in shaping race/ethnic inequities in the prevalence of adverse maternal and neonatal birth outcomes at the census tract level in Lake County, IL. |
   Rising M2s in CMS, Mary Koyosan (left) and Alexis Olsen (middle), as well as Madeline Reddin (right), undergraduate at North Carolina State University, and Adlai Stevenson High School, rising senior, Medha Modekurti (not pictured) will be assessing the role of mismatch between languages spoken by healthcare providers and language needs of the population in explaining Hispanic/Latino inequities in prevalence of chronic disease across census tracts in Lake County, IL. |
