SDOH & Place Symposium

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The

SDOH & Place Project

Symposium

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About the Project

The SDOH & Place Project works to build a community of practice around defining & using community-level social determinants of health, and also demystify application design thinking crucial to developing web applications centered on neighborhood health.

We’re developing a new toolkit to work with place-based SDOH data and develop apps, as well as a new search platform for discovering SDOH data. We’re also building community through discussions on defining SDOH and using SDOH data; engaging new types of collaborations and applications with design justice; and breaking ground in developing new types of infrastructures & tools to support this work.

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At a Glance

All events are located in the Orange & Blue Room

Day 1

Friday, June 14th

2:00 pm - 🏁 Check-in & Welcome

3:00 pm - Session I - Community Talks

4:00 pm - Networking Break

4:40 pm - Session II - PechaKecha/Lightning Session

5:30 pm - 🎉 Reception

7:00 pm - 🍱 Dinner with Colleagues

Day 2

Saturday, June 15th

8:30 am - 🥐 Breakfast

9:00 am - Keynote by Malaika Simmons

10:00 am - Session III - SDOH Fellow Projects

11:00 am - ☕ Coffee Break

11:15 am - Session IV - SDOH Fellow Projects

12:15 pm - 🥗 Lunch & Discovery App Preview by

Engineering & Design Teams

1:30 pm - Session V - SDOH Fellow Projects

2:00 pm - Session VI - Environmental Justice in Chicago

3:00 pm - 👋🏽 Closing & ☕ Coffee Departure

Directions

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Driving Directions

From the south, follow the Kennedy Expressway (90/94) west and exit on Monroe Street. Turn right (east) on Monroe and follow it to Wacker Drive and turn right (south). The Illini Center will be on your right just after Adams Street.

From the west, follow the Eisenhower Expressway (290) east into town, where it becomes Congress Avenue. Exit Wacker Drive and follow the signs that read Upper Wacker Drive. You will be driving north. The Illini Center will be on your left just before Adams Street.

From the north, follow the Kennedy Expressway (90/94) south and exit on Jackson Street. Turn left (east) on Jackson and follow it to Wacker Drive and turn left (north). The Illini Center will be on your left just before Adams Street.

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Public Transportation

The Center is located just two blocks from the Quincy brown line stop on the ‘El’ train and near several bus stops. For Metra users, Union Station is just across the river and Ogilvie Transportation Center is two blocks away. Union Station also services Amtrak trains, the Lincolnland Express and Megabus.

Parking

Three convenient parking garages are located near the Center:

Tower Self Park: entrance located on Adams Street between Franklin and Wells Streets.
500 W Monroe Garage: entrance located on Monroe Street between Clinton and Canal Streets.
322 W Van Buren Street Lot: entrance located on Van Buren between Wacker Drive and Franklin Street

Pro Tip: Use an app to get discount parking rates downtown, like SpotHero.

Malaika Simmons

Keynote Speaker

Malaika Simmons is the Chief Operating Officer for NADPH, a data-driven nonprofit health research organization. She uses her background in research, psychology, and design thinking to promote empathy-based leadership with over 20 years of experience in corporate policy, training, and program management, operating at the convergence of health research, IT, and consumer issues.

Malaika has a strong commitment to improving the health of underserved populations and more broadly supports these efforts through her organization Momentology Media, LLC. Malaika fulfills her passion for the elimination of economic and health disparities in minoritized communities by using her proprietary framework, The Momentology Method™, an intentional framework for living that she uses to empower women to own businesses, champion public health causes, and enter the corporate and political landscapes to affect change in their corner of the world.

At Momentology Media she promotes Human-Centered Design principles to provide thought leadership, motivational speaking, empathy-based corporate training, and executive coaching services helping people and teams increase performance and productivity through insight and impact.