Field Director
Graduated the John Marshall Law School (now the University of Illinois at Chicago), 2017, Governors State University, 2011 (Political and Justice Studies), and Governors State University, 2009 (Criminal Justice)
Specialty areas: research and community outreach in public health with a focus on opioid use disorders and recovery management for vulnerable populations
Since joining Chestnut in 2010, Rachel Kurz has participated in a variety of research projects centered around substance abuse, mental health, and HIV/AIDS and currently serves as the Field Director for the Lighthouse Institute—Chicago (LI-C). Her responsibilities include hiring, training, and overseeing staff engaged in data collection, participant enrollment, and follow-up activities within multi-site evaluation and longitudinal outcome studies. Ms. Kurz also provides training for external partners related to LI’s evaluation and outcome study protocols. Along with leading recruitment efforts both in-field and through collaborative efforts with partner organizations, she is responsible for supervising thousands of participant interviews. In addition to her role at LI-C, Ms. Kurz is a licensed attorney in the state of Illinois.
Selected Publications:
John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center. (2013). Segregation in the Chicago metropolitan area: Some immediate measures to reverse this impediment to fair housing. https://repository.law.uic.edu/whitepapers/9/
Scott, C. K., Dennis, M. L., Grella, C. E., Nicholson, L., Sumpter, J., Kurz, R., & Funk, R. (2020). Findings from the recovery initiation and management after overdose (RIMO) pilot study experiment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 108, 65–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2019.08.004
Scott, C. K., Dennis, M. L., Grella, C. E., Kurz, R., Sumpter, J., Nicholson, L., & Funk, R. (2020). A community outreach intervention to link individuals with opioid use disorders to medication-assisted treatment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 108, 75–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2019.07.001
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