Sinai Urban Health Institute — Sinai Chicago (EXT-009)

Summary 🟡 ~

• Owner Unit: External partner organization
• Sub-unit: Sinai Urban Health Institute (SUHI) / Sinai Chicago
• Content Type: partnership
• Campus/Location: Off-campus (Chicago south & southwest sides)
• Last Verified: July 29, 2026

Organization

Sinai Urban Health Institute (SUHI) is the research arm of Sinai Chicago, a large urban health system serving Chicago’s south and southwest sides. SUHI conducts community-driven, applied health research aligned with health-system and neighborhood priorities.

Access status

• Level: yellow (Negotiated Access)
• Rationale: Sinai Urban Health Institute partnerships are activity-scoped; institutional coordination through research offices.
• Access URL: offices.depaul.edu/research-services/Pages/default.aspx
• Contact name: Office of Research Services
• Contact email: ors@depaul.edu
• Verification date: 2026-06-30
• Source URLs:
• www.sinaichicago.org/en/sinai-health-system/sinai-urban-health-institute

Relationship to DePaul

DePaul partners with SUHI to pursue sponsored research and grant opportunities linking DePaul strengths in data science and machine learning with SUHI’s community health expertise and Sinai Chicago’s clinical and community reach.

Known collaborations & connections

• NSF award GRA-175 (~$1.5M) — SCHOLAR SCC-IRG; Scholars project page names DePaul and Sinai Urban Health Institute as the project team (packet 2026-08-21-scholars-projects-promotion).
• Ansari Sinai Urban Health Institute Fellowship — ORS Annual Report FY 2026 listing GRA-1199 ($10,000; packet 2026-08-19-annual-report-2026).
• Collaboratory activities — MPH practicum with Sinai Urban Health Institute; CHW / social-determinants-of-health data collaboration (packet 2026-06-14-collaboratory-ingestion).
• Biomedical research pathway documented in DePaul BRIDGE grant materials (data/NIH STRONG BRIDGE Facilities.pdf).
• School of Nursing clinical network — “Mt. Sinai Hospital” appears on the Nursing About sample clinical affiliate / employer list (CSH-022); mapped here to the Sinai Chicago health system already represented by this SUHI/Sinai partner page (packet 2026-07-29-nursing-ot-programs-discovery).
• Connected DePaul units: CDM-011 (MedIX/VIDA), UNI-001 (ORS sponsored research), UNI-004 (community engagement context).

Collaborative documents

Document type	Scope	Parties	Status	Source
Sponsored research / grant award	CHW knowledge + machine learning (~$1.5M NSF)	DePaul ↔ SUHI / Sinai Chicago	Described in NIH STRONG BRIDGE Facilities	data/NIH STRONG BRIDGE Facilities.pdf
Partnership MOU (institutional)	Standing DePaul–Sinai research framework	DePaul ↔ Sinai Chicago / SUHI	Not publicly posted in sources reviewed	Map verification (May 2026)

Verification

• Status: likely (~)
• Confidence: 86/100
• Rationale: Major external partner maintains active public website and standard user/membership access pathways; DePaul relationship documented on map.
• Last verified: 2026-07-29
• Evidence:
• Partner primary website reachable (May 2026)
• DePaul cross-references and partnership notes in resource map (May 2026)
• Sinai Chicago / SUHI sites active
• NIH BRIDGE grant documents collaboration
• School of Nursing clinical affiliate / employer sample list — sources/inbox/2026-07-29-nursing-ot-programs-discovery/source_snapshot/captured/csh-depaul-edu-academics-departments-schools-nursing-about-144dd805dc.html

Equipment

External research institute partner; not DePaul inventory.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

• Website: Sinai Chicago
• Website: Sinai Urban Health Institute

People & contacts

Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.

• Helen Margellos-Anast (Director)
• Sina Ansari (Collaborator) — sina.ansari@depaul.edu · Profile

Source URL

Official links are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Biomedical and community-health research partner for sponsored projects; complements Rush/CCHE clinical partnerships (EXT-010, UNI-012).

Linked Relationship IDs

• CDM-011 - VIDA / MedIX / IMP Labs
• UNI-001 - Office of Research Services (Technology Transfer)
• UNI-012 - Center for Community Health Equity (CCHE)
• CSH-022 - DePaul Simulation Lab — School of Nursing

Documented connections

Generated from publication↔resource and person↔publication registries. Superscript numbers open Sources below. Multiple sources on one claim are grouped as ^1,4. Grant links are listed on publication and grant pages.

Publications

• Leveraging Community Health Workers for Predicting Emergency Department Readmissions (2024) — documented, uses · DOI¹
• Leveraging Hidden Patterns in Open-Ended Community Health Workers’ Notes to Improve Prediction of Patient Readmission (2025) — documented, uses · DOI²
• Leveraging Community Health Workers and Social Determinants of Health for Predicting Emergency Department Readmissions (2023) — documented, uses · DOI³
• 313 Data-Driven Evaluation of Community Health Worker Program (2024) — documented, uses · DOI⁴
• Society of Behavioral Medicine supports legislation to prevent the public health (2025) — supporting, mentions · DOI⁵
• Influenza and Pneumonia Mortality Across the 30 Biggest U.S. Cities: Assessment (2021) — supporting, mentions · DOI⁶

People on linked publications

• Daniela Raicu (author; PUB-170)¹
• Jacob Furst (author; PUB-170)¹
• Julia Lippert (author; PUB-371)⁷

Sources

1. Using data from the Sinai Urban Health Institute, we compare predicting the readmissions of patients. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
2. Utilizing data from the Sinai Urban Health Institute (SUHI), we analysed both structured data including demographics, interaction logs. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
3. Using data from the Sinai Urban Health Institute. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
4. Using data from the Sinai Urban Health Institute. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
5. gazetteer hit. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
6. gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
7. PubMed DePaul affiliation hit for Julia Lippert. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source

Notes

Source: NIH STRONG BRIDGE Facilities (May 2026). Verify NSF award number and public abstract on next pass. Faculty papers PUB-170 and PUB-171 name Sinai Urban Health Institute as the data source (OpenAlex abstracts; packet 2026-08-21-faculty-openalex-oa). Unmatched-author follow-ons PUB-174 and PUB-175 name the same SUHI data (packet 2026-08-21-unevaluated-piles; no PER-*). GRA-175 names SUHI as the SCHOLAR project partner.