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Center for Community Health Equity (CCHE) (UNI-012)

Center for Community Health Equity (CCHE) is documented in the DePaul Resource Map as center at DePaul University, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Center for Community Health Equity, Multi-campus (DePaul LAS + Rush collaborations). Documentation is partial or indirect, so the listing is treated as likely current. The Center for Community Health Equity (CCHE) strives to improve community health outcomes and contribute to the elimination of health inequities in Chicago. Co-founded by DePaul University and Rush University in 2015, CCHE integrates analysis, education, and intervention with Chicago communities, organizing research across levels of study—individuals, neighborhoods, Chicago, and cross-city comparisons—and combining public health, medical knowledge, and public policy. Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation.

Summary 🟡 ~

  • College / school: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
  • Sub-unit: Center for Community Health Equity
  • Campus/Location: Multi-campus (DePaul LAS + Rush collaborations)
  • Last Verified: July 1, 2026

Access (availability): 🟢 Green — open or routine · 🟡 Yellow — appointment or affiliation · 🔴 Red — restricted · ⚪/⚫ White/Black — not yet classified

Verification: ✓ confirmed · ~ likely · ? needs review · ✕ archived

Description & capabilities

The Center for Community Health Equity (CCHE) strives to improve community health outcomes and contribute to the elimination of health inequities in Chicago. Co-founded by DePaul University and Rush University in 2015, CCHE integrates analysis, education, and intervention with Chicago communities, organizing research across levels of study—individuals, neighborhoods, Chicago, and cross-city comparisons—and combining public health, medical knowledge, and public policy. CCHE is administratively housed in DePaul's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences while operating as a joint DePaul–Rush partnership, connecting DePaul faculty and students across LAS, CSH, Business, CDM, and Communication with Rush health-sciences faculties for health-equity research, community initiatives, and student project opportunities.

Access status

Verification

  • Status: ~ Likely current
  • Rationale: Documented from an archived institutional source. primary source: https://healthequitychicago.org/about-us/who-we-are/
  • Last verified: 2026-07-01
  • Evidence:
  • Maria Joy Ferrera, PhD, LCSW — Co-Director, Center for Community Health Equity — mferrera@depaul.edu (https://healthequitychicago.org/about-us/who-we-are/)

Equipment

Center-level community health equity research; no standalone equipment inventory.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

People & contacts

Named contacts when publicly documented.

Source URL

Official links are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Joint DePaul–Rush center for health equity, administratively hosted by DePaul's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.

  • Co-founded with EXT-010 - Rush University (2015); expanded under a 2021 memorandum of understanding between the universities.
  • Student projects include Rush community health needs assessment support, Chicago health-disparities comparisons, and community-service learning pathways (Rush CCHE).
  • Publications and community reports on health equity (see healthequitychicago.org).

Notes

Joint center — DePaul is co-founder and administrative host (College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences), so this is a UNI resource page with Rush University recorded as a linked external partner (EXT-010) rather than an external-only EXT entry.

Collaboration provenance: founding partnership active since 2015; expanded DePaul–Rush MOU signed 2021 (Rush news); CCHE governance/charter text not publicly posted (map verification, May 2026).

Source: NIH STRONG BRIDGE Facilities + public CCHE sites (May 2026).