ICH Supports Community-Based Approaches to Opioid Abuse Prevention

By Lynn Ibekwe Although opioid abuse has been a growing problem over the past decade, public awareness has only recently peaked due to opioid deaths around the country reaching epidemic proportions and the deaths of celebrities like Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Cory Monteith. Opioids are highly addictive substances that include heroin and prescription pain medication […]

ICH & the Cambridge Public Health Dept. Partner for Real World Public Health Day 2014

This National Public Health Week, ICH and the Cambridge Public Health Department are hosting the 11th annual Real World Public Health Day–a seminar for graduate students that explores “real life”  public health challenges and opportunities, beyond classroom training. The seminar includes a career panel of local public health leaders and practitioners, three interactive workshops, and ample […]

Leah Zallman Co-Authors 4th Most-Read Health Affairs Blog Post of 2013

ICH Junior Scientist, Dr. Leah Zallman, co-authored a post in the esteemed Health Affairs blog detailing her team’s demographic and geographic analyses of uninsured individuals post-health reform. Dr. Zallman and her colleagues concluded that states’ option to opt-out of Medicaid expansion greatly weakened the ACA’s potential impact, leaving millions of Americans uninsured and perpetuating racial and geographical disparities […]

ICH Volunteer Day

By Nazmim Bhuiya On January 17th, ICH held our inaugural Volunteer Day at Cradles to Crayons (C2C) in Brighton. C2C is dedicated to providing children from birth to age 12, living in low-income and homeless situations, with the essential items they need to thrive – at home, at school and at play. At their Giving Factory, we sorted […]

Meet ICH Board Chair Claritza Abreu

Can you tell us about your background and current position? I am an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, my educational background is computer science, and for more than 20 years, I have been working on information systems, information technology and data management for government organizations mostly in the health and human services industry. I’ve held […]

Lisa Arsenault Appointed to CHA Institutional Review Board

ICH’s epidemiologist, Lisa Arsenault, was recently appointed to the Cambridge Health Alliance Institutional Review Board (IRB). IRBs are federally mandated ethics review boards whose charge is to protect the safety and welfare of human research participants. All research involving human subjects, or human data,  must first be reviewed and approved by an IRB. We are proud […]