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Associate Professor
Rush University Medical Center
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Lynch is a health equity researcher focused on development and implementation of effective community partnerships to conduct behavioral intervention research to promote health equity across a wide range of health conditions. Dr. Lynch is the Director of the Section of Community Health in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and is co-lead of the Research arm of the RUSH BMO Institute for Health Equity. She is a founder and the Research Director of the Alive Faith Network (AFN), a partnership between African American churches and researchers to address health inequities in African American communities. She is also the co-PI of the Chicago Chronic Conditions Equity Network (C3EN), which is an NIMHD-funded P50 center at RUSH and University of Chicago to develop community-partnered interventions to address health inequity in chronic conditions in the Chicago region. Dr. Lynch also serves as a Director of the Community Core of the Chicago Institute for Translational Medicine (ITM) to help coordinate and support community-engaged research partnerships and activities within RUSH and across the ITM institutions, including University of Chicago, Loyola and other large Chicago-area healthcare institutions. She has partnered with the AFN as Principal Investigator on six NIH-funded grants to develop and test community-based interventions to improve health equity for African Americans. She has also been PI on two NIH-funded grants to develop and test a community-based intervention to improve diabetes control among African American patients of safety net hospitals. She also partnered with the AFN as PI on two grants to provide COVID-19 testing and vaccinations in community churches and community-based organizations