Collaboratory for Health Justice | School of Public Health

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Industries lining the Calumet River in Southeast Chicago.

RMG/Southside Recycling Permit: Letter to the Chicago Department of Public Health

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

With southeast side Chicago communities already facing an excessive burden of pollution, SPH calls on the City of Chicago to halt the permit for a scrap metal recycling facility.

Transforming healthcare

Monday, November 15, 2021

Illinois' Department of Healthcare and Family Services turned to SPH to answer a fundamental question: how to reduce health disparities in socially vulnerable areas of Illinois.

Summer Youth Citizen Scientists Create Research Projects Based in Social Justice

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

This summer, the Collaboratory for Health Justice, in partnership with One Summer Chicago and the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, hosted a 6-week Youth Citizen Scientist Program. Youth ages 16 – 24 learned…

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About the Collaboratory Heading link

The UIC School of Public Health Collaboratory  for  Health  Justice is dedicated to enhancing reciprocal engagement between the community and UIC faculty, students, and staff. Our emphasis is on connecting people to each other and to resources that will ultimately improve their public health research, teaching, and practice. We strive to advance health justice—that all people would have the power and resources to have agency over their health, which requires addressing systems of oppression such as classism, racism, sexism and xenophobia.

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Our mission is to support academic-community partnerships by facilitating the meaningful participation of broad stakeholders; fostering representation & presence in academic settings; and providing training and technical assistance for integrating community engagement across research, teaching and practice.

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Our vision is health justice attained through active participation of broad stakeholders in the UIC School of Public Health through research, teaching and practice.