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Founded in 2016, the Foxglove Alliance (FGA) is a coalition of 15 (and growing) mostly not-for-profit organizations dedicated to improving public health in the Chicago metropolitan area through collaborations between members and a host of strategic partners. The FGA utilizes a network of more than two hundred non-profit, for-profit, government and social enterprise entities in Chicago to help address a variety of public health challenges and provide solutions.  

In 2016, leaders of the Hektoen Institute of Medicine, the Institute of Medicine of Chicago, the Michael Reese Research & Education Foundation, the Portes Foundation, and the Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago gathered to address areas of public health in Chicago. This led to the formation of the Foxglove Alliance, sponsored by the Hektoen Institute. The name was chosen in remembrance of William Withering, an eighteenth-century physician  who first introduced the use of digitalis, extracted from the flower digitalis pururea, to treat patients with dropsy arising from heart failure. For almost two hundred years digitalis in the form of its derivatives digoxin and digitoxin was one of the most widely used medicines in the world. It represents one of the most important leaps forward in pharmacology and therapeutics.

To-date, through the efforts of the members, partners and coordinator Levi Moore, the FGA has helped launch the Illinois Drug Reuse Opportunity Program (I-DROP) to provide Illinois free and charitable clinics a source for free prescription medications for their patients; debuted the Community Pulse public affairs television program on Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV); is advancing the More Minorities in Medical Research (M3R) campaign to increase the number of minorities participating in clinical trials and to encourage Chicago youth to enter into careers in health care, and hosted a number of events on topical, public health issues. The FGA’s current priorities are illustrated below:

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Levi Moore – Foxglove Alliance Coordinator

Levi.Moore@Hektoen.org

1339 S. Wood Street, Suite G
Chicago, IL 60608

(312) 768-6000

 

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