The document outlines the steering committee and references for the Collaborative for Health Equity Cook County, which works to eliminate structural racism so that all people in Cook County have opportunities to live healthy lives. It lists the members of the steering committee and their affiliations. It also provides a selected list of references including books, articles, and online resources on equity and health that cover topics like structural racism, the social determinants of health, and public health actions to support immigrant rights.

1. Steering Committee
Susan Avila
7th District (Cook County)
Health Task Force
Daniel R. Block
Chicago State University
James E. Bloyd
Cook County Department of
Public Health
Maximilian M. Boykin
The Black AIDS Institute
Natalie Chadwell
South Suburb Resident
Jonathan Contreras
Northwestern University
Wesley Epplin
Health & Medicine Policy
Research Group
Patricia Fron
Chicago Area Fair Housing
Alliance
Lilian Jiménez
Linda Rae Murray
University of Illinois, School
of Public Health
Bonnie Rateree
Human Action Community
Organization
Brenda L. Rodriguez
West Suburb Resident
Felipe Tendick-Matesanz
Team Lead, CHE Cook
County
Griselle Torres
Reveca Torres
BackbonesOnline.com
Tanya Watkins
Southsiders Organized for
Unity & Liberation
Selected References For Further Reading on Equity and Health
Books
De Maio, F., Shah, R. C., Mazzeo, J., & Ansell, D. (Eds.). (2019). Community Health Equity: A Chicago
Reader. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Jobin-Leeds, G., & AgitArte. (2016). When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and
the Activists That Are Transforming Our World. New York: New Press, The.
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, & Cook County Place Matters. (2012). Place Matters for
Health in Cook County: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All. Washington, DC: National
Collaborative for Health Equity. http://www.nationalcollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PLACE-
MATTERS-for-Health-in-Cook-County.pdf
Klinenberg, E. (2002). Heat Wave: a social autopsy of disaster in Chicago. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press.
Krieger, N. (2011). Epidemiology and the People’s Health. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ansell, D. A. (2017). The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills. Chicago: University of Chicago.
NACCHO. (2018). Advancing Public Narrative for Health Equity and Social Justice. Washington, DC:
National Association of County and City Health Officials.
Tresser, T. (Ed.). (2016). Chicago Is Not Broke: Funding The City We Deserve. Chicago: The CivicLab.
Articles
Bailey, Z. D., Krieger, N., Agénor, M., Graves, J., Linos, N., & Bassett, M. T. (2017). Structural racism and
health inequities in the USA: evidence and interventions. The Lancet, 389(10077), 1453-1463.
Bassett, M. T. (2015). #BlackLivesMatter--A Challenge to the Medical and Public Health Communities.
New England Journal of Medicine, 3.
Public Health Actions for Immigrant Rights
Beckfield, J., & Bambra, C. (2016). Shorter lives in stingier states: Social policy shortcomings help explain
the US mortality disadvantage. Social Science & Medicine, 171, 30-38.
Chaufan, C., Yeh, J., Ross, L., & Fox, P. (2014). You can’t walk or bike yourself out of the health effects of
poverty: active school transport, child obesity, and blind spots in the public health literature. Critical Public
Health.
Working to eliminate structural racism so that all people of Cook County
have the opportunity to live healthy lives
E-mail: info@checookcounty.org
www.CHECookCounty.org Twitter: @CHECookCounty YouTube.com/ccplacematters

2. Working to eliminate structural racism so that all people of Cook County
have the opportunity to live healthy lives
E-mail: info@checookcounty.org
www.CHECookCounty.org Twitter: @CHECookCounty YouTube.com/ccplacematters
De Maio, F., & Ansell, D. (2018). “As Natural as the Air Around Us”: On the Origin and Development of the Concept of
Structural Violence in Health Research. Int J Health Serv, 48(4), 749-759.
Geronimus, A. T., Bound, J., Waidmann, T. A., Rodriguez, J. M., & Timpe, B. (2019). Weathering, Drugs, and Whack-a-
Mole: Fundamental and Proximate Causes of Widening Educational Inequity in U.S. Life Expectancy by Sex and Race,
1990-2015. J Health Soc Behav, 60(2), 222-239.
Heller, J. (2016). Strategic Questions to Ask to explicitly address racism and power in your public health practice Retrieved
Jun 28, 2016, from http://www.humanimpact.org/from-the-hip-blog/strategic-questions-to-ask-to-explicitly-address-racism-
and-power-in-your-public-health-practice/.
Krieger, N. (2019). The US Census and the People’s Health: Public Health Engagement From Enslavement and “Indians
Not Taxed” to Census Tracts and Health Equity (1790-2018). Am J Public Health, 109(8), 1092-1100.
Lange-Maia, B. S., De Maio, F., Avery, E. F., Lynch, E. B., Laflamme, E. M., Ansell, D. A. et al. (2018). Association of
community-level inequities and premature mortality: Chicago, 2011-2015. J Epidemiol Community Health.
Popay, J., Whitehead, M., & Hunter, D. J. (2010). Injustice is killing people on a large scale—but what is to be done about
it? J Public Health (Oxf), 32(2), 148-149.
Novak, N., Geronimus, A. T., & Martinez-Cardoso, A. M. (2017). Change in Birth Outcomes among infants born to Latina
mothers after a major immigration raid. International Journal of Epidemiology, 1-11.
PublicHealthAwakened.com. (2017). Public Health Actions for Immigrant Rights: A Short Guide to Protecting
Undocumented Residents and Their Families for the Benefit of Public Health and All Society.
https://publichealthawakened.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DPH-Actions-in-Support-of-Undocumented-Populations-
UPDATED_2018.02.09.pdf
Whitman, S., Good, G., Donoghue, E. R., Benbow, N., Shou, W., & Mou, S. (1997). Mortality in Chicago attributed to the
July 1995 heat wave. Am J Public Health, 87(9), 1515-1518.
Online
VIDEO: Place Matters for Health In Cook County 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYmtREA3Lkc
Collaboratives For Health Equity [Web page] http://www.nationalcollaborative.org/our-programs/collaboratives-for-health-
equity-che/
Collaborative for Health Equity Cook County [Web Page] www.CHECookCounty.org The web page has several links to
peer-reviwed journal articles.
Human Impact Partners. “Public Health Departments are Building Power for Health Equity.” https://healthequityguide.org/
2019.
Public Health Awakened [Web Page] https://publichealthawakened.com/