Professor
UIC School of Public Health, Center of Excellence in MCH
Dr. Arden Handler is the Director of the Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health and a Professor in Community Health Sciences of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. Dr. Handler’s research career reflects her long-standing commitment to reducing disparities and improving the health of women, pregnant and postpartum persons, and infants. Her specific interest is the exploration of factors that increase disparities in adverse pregnancy outcomes and examining ways in which the health care delivery system can reduce inequities. Other interests include MCH advocacy and policy, and building the analytic capacity of the MCH/MCHEPI workforce. Dr. Handler is PI of the Title V MCH Internship Program, PI of the evaluation of IBCCP, PI of the evaluation of Family Connects Chicago, and Co-PI of Innovations to ImPROve Maternal OuTcomEs in Illinois (I PROMOTE-IL). She is a former member of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality (SACIM).