West Side United
Jennifer Marcsisin, MPH, RDN, serves as the Director of Health and Healthcare at West Side United since August 2019, where previous roles included Senior Program Manager and Program Manager for Food Access. Jennifer's extensive experience includes a role as Program Manager for Food Access at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago from August 2019 to September 2022, and managerial positions as a Registered Dietitian at Kindred Healthcare and Lexington Health Network from August 2016 to August 2019 and May 2015 to July 2016, respectively. Jennifer holds a Master of Public Health in Community Health Sciences from the University of Illinois Chicago and a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from the University of Kentucky.
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West Side United
Mission To build community health and economic wellness on Chicago’s West Side and build healthy, vibrant neighborhoods. About Us The nine vibrant and diverse neighborhoods comprising Chicago’s West Side are at the heart of the city’s civic and commercial vitality. Yet people in these neighborhoods experience rates of chronic diseases like diabetes, asthma, hypertension, and infant mortality rates far above the national average. Barriers to health and wellness extend far beyond the health sector. Medical evidence shows that the root causes of many illnesses that shorten the lives of people who live in urban areas are not based in biology or behavior, but are instead determined by the social forces like inequities in education, employment, food access, violence and transportation. The arteries circulating opportunity and prosperity to the West Side are blocked.