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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Fall 2021
Action in Education
Dean's Corner: Back to School; Antiracism training; Congratulations!; Counselor preparedness study; Student Appeal Fund established; Advancing antiracism; Alumnae Profile: School, Meet Pool; Research Focus: Agents of Change.
Grassroots On Common Ground
DePaul Magazine
This article looks at various student organizations at DePaul that work with outside agencies, other universities and within various disciplines to achieve social justice and understanding. The organizations are Community Peacemakers, Students Against Incarceration, Chicago Area Peace Action-DePaul, The Women's Center and the DePaul Alliance for Latinx Empowerment.
Scholarly Pursuits: The Inequality Of Illness
Scholarly Pursuits: The Inequality Of Illness
Insights
Multiple LAS faculty received grants from DePaul to pursue different studies that analyze health equity and COVID-19. Part of the research helped map the extent to which race, ethnicity, socioeconomics and previous health conditions explain the disparities in outcomes from COVID-19 in Chicago.
Challenging Inequality: Professor Fernando De Maio Explores The Statistics Behind Health Disparities
Challenging Inequality: Professor Fernando De Maio Explores The Statistics Behind Health Disparities
DePaul Magazine
According to the World Health Organization's commission on the social determinants of health, "reducing health inequalities is ... an ethical imperative. Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale." Fernando De Maio, associate professor of sociology at DePaul University, explores this concept by examining avoidable health inequalities in the global sphere. He uses sociological methods to analyze empirical data and hopes statistics can be used to bring about policy change.