The UIC SPH seed funding program develops early-stage, cutting-edge research that contributes to the school’s mission. SPH annually awards seed grants to innovative research projects and early-career investigators. Meet this year's awardees!
UIC's P3RC and the IDPH welcome the Illinois Public Health Leadership Institute for Systems Change 2025 cohort. Fellows learn from and share with peers and expand their abilities to advance organizational, community, and systems change.
Researchers at the UIC School of Public Health have put a spin on lotería to share information about work and health with Chicago’s North Lawndale and Little Village communities.
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.
Suzet McKinney, a nationally recognized public health expert and medical executive, is the newest member of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.
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.
Dr. Susan L. Hughes, Professor Emerita in the Division of Community Health Sciences and Founding Director of Center for Research on Health and Aging at UIC, testified before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging.
Dr. Sambanis has been elected to the Illinois Green Alliance Board of Directors and helps guide the organization's strategic vision — to make net zero buildings feasible, affordable, and so commonplace that every building in IL by 2050 is net zero.
Alisa Velonis, MPH, PhD, as the new Director of the CoE-MCH, is dedicated to training the next generation of MCH practitioners. Dr. Velonis has spent nearly two decades working in public health and community-based settings.
Karriem Watson, DHSc, MS, MPH '10, and former SPH research assistant professor, has been named the new executive director of UI Health Mile Square Health Center.
