What comes to mind when you think of your community’s public health challenges?  Public health extends much further beyond addressing infectious disease outbreaks.

As Illinois’ only fully-accredited School of Public Health, the UIC School of Public Health has been at work in local and global communities for more than 50 years.  The problems we’re tackling today include health disparities, health effects of climate change, policing and its health impacts, social determinants of health, public policy, worker justice and so much more.

Guiding our work close to home in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood or abroad in Kisumu City, Kenya is an insistence on health justice for all.  We invite you to learn more about our programs that will prepare you to lead in public health for equity and justice.

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  • 8 th UIC's national ranking in social mobility, according to the Wall St Journal

  • 18 th UIC's national ranking among schools of public health, by US News & World Reports

  • 7 x UIC is a seven-time recipient of the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award

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Jan 9 2025
Graduate Information Session
Thursday, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Feb 13 2025
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SPH Student Monica Padilla Receives UIC's Lincoln Laureate Award
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Monica Padilla, a double major in public health and biological sciences and a member of UIC’s Honors College, is UIC’s 2024 Lincoln Academy Student Laureate. The award is given to seniors – just one from each college…
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New SPH Center Will Explore Climate Equity
Thursday, November 7, 2024
A new University of Illinois Chicago research center will gather experts from public health, medicine, engineering, urban planning and biological sciences to measure these health impacts and test nature-based interventions such as green…
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UIC Report Finds Significant Health Inequities For People Experiencing Homelessness
Friday, September 13, 2024
SPH, in conjunction with IDPH, developed a report that highlights the scope of health issues disproportionately faced by people experiencing homelessness and the need to increase health-promoting interventions.
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2024 Dean's Scholar Fellow | Soumya Sahu, PhD Candidate
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Congratulations to Soumya Sahu, PhD Candidate in Biostatistics in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics on being one of the recipients of the 2024 Dean’s Scholar Fellowship, a one-year, non-renewable award presented by…
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MHA students honored at Chicago Health Executives Forum annual meeting
Monday, February 26, 2024
MHA students earned the Health Studies Student Leadership Award that recognizes the achievements of an outstanding graduate students in a Chicago healthcare management program.
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Making the invisible visible: new center explores equity in dementia care and caregiving
Monday, February 12, 2024
UIC's new Center for Health Equity in Cognitive Aging will address the needs of underrepresented groups through funding research, mentoring early-career faculty and connecting UIC to a national network.