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Apr 3 2025
SPH Undergraduate Programs Information Session
Thursday, 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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Apr 10 2025
Graduate Information Session
Thursday, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Apr 15 2025
SPH Undergraduate Programs Information Session
Tuesday, 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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Apr 17 2025
EOHS Virtual Fair Express - April
Thursday, 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
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Public health degree programs Heading link

Centered in the nation's largest urban medical district, our work starts at home in Chicago neighborhoods. Across numerous CDC, NIH and World Health Organization projects and global collaboration spanning 65 countries, our mission remains the same: to confront and mitigate social, economic and political barriers to health through research, teaching, service, and practice.
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Our latest efforts Heading link

Two SPH Faculty Win 2025 UIC Research and Scholarship Awards
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
SPH professors Leslie Williams and Uchechi Mitchell won UIC's Research Rising Star Awards, which recognize early-career faculty who have shown outstanding promise to become future leaders in their fields.
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Suzet McKinney (DrPH '09) joins U of I Board of Trustees
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Suzet McKinney, a nationally recognized public health expert and medical executive, is the newest member of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.
A group photo of all presenters from UIC's January SparkTalks in front of the presentation stage, with Chancellor Miranda.
Three Faculty Present at Bi-Annual SparkTalks Showcase
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Three School of Public Health faculty members proudly represented the school at UIC SparkTalks – a biannual showcase of thoughts and solutions of influential UIC changemakers to inspire and create a better world.

Policing and public health Heading link

The deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in encounters with police captured the nation's conscience in 2020. But even these high profile cases cannot alone illuminate the scale of the effects on public health that can be caused by law enforcement activity. SPH faculty are building a surveillance system for Chicago, Illinois and the nation to systematically track and describe civilian injuries and deaths in interactions with law enforcement.
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Law Enforcement Epidemiology Project

An underpass on Chicago's south side contains a mural showing a wide variety of people, with differences in age, size and ethnicities.

Democratizing population health data

We believe citizens should play an active role in improving the public health of their own neighborhoods and communities. SPH's PHAME Center is strengthening access to timely, detailed and understandable health data.

Advancing health justice

All people should have the power and resources to have agency over their health, which requires addressing systems of oppression such as classism, racism, sexism and xenophobia.

Public health isn't an action performed on others

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the need for citizens to be collaborators in public health. We're building capacity for citizen scientists as researchers and contact tracers.

Global health Heading link

SPH students, faculty and staff are collaborating in 65 countries around the world. Our global health concentration builds on-the-ground experience for MPH and MS students, and our bidirectional emphasis is strengthening training of public health leaders in other nations, notably Indonesia, Cuba and Mexico.
A health screener meets with a female worker in Kisumu to talk about personal health outcomes.
A streetscape in Cuernavaca, Mexico
An artisanal gold miner sifts through silt combined with mercury as part of a gold mining process.
MPH student Colin Hendrickson poses for a photo holding up two vials of water at a water purification station in Kenya.

SPH Program in Kenya

SPH students travel to Kisumu City each year, working with community partners on HIV/AIDS interventions, sexual and reproductive health, safe water access, interpersonal violence, tobacco cessation and LGBTQ health.

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SPH Program in Mexico

In partnership with Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, SPH students travel to Cuernavaca, capital of Morelos state, to work with community partners addressing community health challenges in the region and country.

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World Health Organization Collaborating Center

SPH's World Health Organization Collaborating Center focuses primarily on occupational and environmental health and is a global leader in training occupational health practitioners to address the health and safety needs of informal workers around the world.

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Global Health Research Portfolio

SPH leads the way in developing and testing interventions and programs to investigate causes of disease, improve health and deliver acceptable, feasible and affordable services. Underlying our efforts, we prioritize equity, compassion and idealism as we address health equities and human rights worldwide.

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Environmental justice Heading link

All too often, the burdens of pollutants, toxic emissions and climate change disproportionately impact people in low and lower-middle income communities. At SPH, we're committed to strengthening environmental justice, the principle that all people should be protected from environmental pollution and have the right to a clean and healthy environment.
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