News and Media Highlights

Three years after launching its pilot program, a partnership between IU School of Medicine and CareSource is demonstrating healthier birth outcomes for Hoosier women and their babies. The program, Healthy Beginnings at Home, launched in 2023, at a time when infant mortality was up 3%, the biggest increase in two decades. 

Congratulations to Jack Turman, PhD, and the Grassroots and Maternal Health Initiative group, whose program Healthy Beginnings at Home has been honored as the New Nonprofit Program of the Year by the Indiana Business Journal!

Congratulations to Jim Wood, MD, MSCI, for being named a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Fellowship in IDSA is one of the highest honors in the field of infectious disease!

Congratulations to Natalie Guerrero, MD, PhD, who was selected as a fellow in Health Affairs' Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees (HEFT). 

Congratulations to Rebecca McNally Keehn, PhD, in winning the Health & Life Science Best and Brightest Award! Also, congratulations to Marciana Laster, MD, for her nomination for the award. 

Congratulations to Michelle Starr, MD, in receiving the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology Equity, Social Justice and Advocacy Award.