Last July the UIC Department of Medicine announced a new maternal research center called The Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence which focuses on building and training an interdisciplinary research team, as well as partnering with communities to combat maternal mortality and create an equitable healthcare experience for everyone, regardless of background.

Funded by an $11 million six-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the new center will have the resources needed to work towards discovering the root of maternal healthcare disparity. Since the announcement, UIC has been working hard to build a coalition of medical and research experts at various institutions. NCSA has long had a close working relationship with University of Illinois researchers. Its Health Innovation Program Office (HIPO) in particular aims to foster exactly these types of cross-disciplinary collaborations. That’s how Aiman Soliman, a CAII Center Affiliate and research scientist at the Center, first met Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of food science and human nutrition and a collaborator with CAII.
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