In an analysis of international patent applications between 1999 and 2020, WIPO reports that women were involved in only 23% of all applications – representing just 13% of all inventors listed. Based on these trends, WIPO estimates gender parity will be achieved by an estimated target year of 2061. Read more here.

April 2023

Although there is no question that adverse social circumstances negatively impact health and healthcare outcomes, it is not clear what the healthcare sector’s role should be in addressing these adverse social factors. In this webinar, we heard from Stacy Lindau, MD, MA, Seth Berkowitz, MD, MPH, and Sherry Glied, PhD, MA, on their perspectives on this important question. Watch here.

March 2024

As special advisor to the provost, Stacy leads projects in the provost’s highest priority strategic domains. She also works closely with the vice provosts and the provost’s chief of staff as well as other administrative and faculty leaders. Read more here.

October 13, 2023

The next time you eat at Sky Café, Café Central and the Kitchen at Billings, you’ll be able to make a small donation to help University of Chicago Medicine patients and their families who face food insecurity. Starting Oct. 2, customers will be given the option to round up their purchase to the nearest dollar to support Feed1st, the hospital-based program that runs 10 self-serve food pantry sites across the academic health system’s Hyde Park campus. Read more here.

October 4, 2023

The South Side Population Health Study collected data on health, technology use, and use of community resources from participants on Chicago’s South Side. The Studies are conducted via a partnership between researchers and physicians at the University working with community practitioners and residents who care about health in the region. This report includes general findings from the South Side Population Health Study. Read more here.

September 29, 2023

When a child dies unexpectedly or traumatically, parents rarely have help finding support for themselves or the rest of their family. A new $6,155,096 million research grant, recently awarded to Dr. Kelly Michelson of Northwestern University and the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau of the University of Chicago and Ms. Kristin James of Missing Pieces will fund a study that will examine strategies to help parents find community resources to cope and grieve during this fragile time. Read more here.

July 18, 2023

PCORI has approved funding for the Lindau Lab and Kelly Michelson at Northwestern University to conduct a broad pragmatic trial of the CommunityRx-Bereavement intervention. Read more in the press release here.

January 26, 2023

In April 2020, researchers surveyed 3,200 women as part of the National U.S. Women’s Health COVID-19 Study. Authors conducted the research to describe patterns and health associations of unwanted sex during the early stages of the public health crisis. The findings, published in October in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, are the first large-scale study of unwanted sexual activity and its relationship with health-related socioeconomic conditions… Click to read more

December 13, 2022

A new study finds that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, women caregivers had significantly higher odds of experiencing health-related socioeconomic vulnerabilities such as food insecurity, financial strain and transportation difficulties compared to non-caregivers, with 63% of caregivers reporting at least one vulnerability compared to 47% of non-caregivers… Click to read more

October 18, 2022

The University of Chicago Medicine’s no-questions-asked, self-serve Feed1st pantry program more than doubled its distribution rates between March 2020 and November 2021 compared with the same period in 2018-2019, providing more than 42,000 pounds of food (a 124% increase) to patients, hospital visitors and staff during the pandemic. These results were published in the American Journal of Public Health on August 25, and according to the research team, demonstrate the importance of open access food pantry programs…. Click to read more

September 1, 2022

After attending a lecture by Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, MAPP about UChicago Medicine’s Feed1st Program and the first Comer Children’s Hospital pantry — started by Pritzker School of Medicine students, faculty and staff in 2010 — Ann Jackson, DPT, MPH, decided to start a Feed1st food pantry for cancer patients… Click to read more

June 2, 2022

In recent years, two new medications for women with low libido have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, “though their efficacy is marginally better than a placebo,” said Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau, a gynecologist at the University of Chicago Medicine and the creator of WomanLab, a website about sexual health… Click to read more

March 11, 2022

The bottom line: It’s hard to say with certainty that cannabis will increase desire or improve your sex life, but anecdotal evidence suggests that the right dose of cannabis can make a woman’s orgasms more satisfying and increase sex drive… Click to read more

April 1, 2022

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January 12, 2022

“My Diabetes, My Community” will study the impact of two strategies to personalize blood sugar control goals, engage patients, and enhance self-care. The project is led by Elbert Huang, MD, a core investigator with the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research, and Stacy Lindau, MD, whose interdisciplinary lab focuses on engineering solutions to injustice with the patients and communities they serve. It is funded with a $5 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)… Click to read more

July 23, 2021