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Divers explore the underwater side of a boat.
Environmental health and AI aim to protect US Navy divers
Monday, August 2, 2021
Divers often enter waters with limited information on water quality, but new artificial intelligence systems under development at SPH may offer protection against waterborne pathogens.
Alumnus Establishes Scholarship Fund to Help Future Statisticians
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Alumnus Chris Barker played an active role in the biostatistical development of COVID-19 vaccines and now is funding scholarships to prepare future biostatistical experts at SPH.
Faculty and staff with the Collaboratory for Health Justice pose for a photo.
MacArthur grant aims to build community capacity in public health
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
SPH's Collaboratory for Health Justice is one of 35 recipients of public health-focused grants from the MacArthur Foundation, funding that will build reciprocal relationships with CBOs and foster youth citizen scientists.
Charter boat customers hold up large fish they caught during their voyage.
NIH study examines environmental exposures in fish consumption
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
SPH's Mary Turyk is studying how perfluoroalkyl substances and mercury may cause disruptions to the human endocrine and thyroid systems.
An empty restaurant in Chicago.
New study examines pandemic effects on rats, human health
Monday, July 19, 2021
With rat behavior changing drastically at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, SPH alumna Dorothy Maffei argues in new research the impact on human health should be viewed as a community health challenge.
Industries line the Calumet River in the far southeast corner of Chicago.
Environmental exposures may drive prostate cancer risk
Monday, July 12, 2021
New research co-authored by SPH's Jyotsna Jagai finds land-based and water-based environmental exposures may be driving risks of aggressive prostate cancer.