UIC SPH is proud to celebrate five students and alumni being named to the de Beaumont Foundation’s 40 Under 40 in Public Health list. The award recognizes leaders who are advancing health equity, driving innovation, and strengthening communities.
SPH is proud to be leading 41 presentations, panels, discussions, and awards at the nation's preeminent public health conference, APHA, in Washington, DC.
For 10 weeks, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) mobile examination center set up in the Illinois Medical District. UIC SPH was able to tour the center and learn about the tests behind this publicly available health data.
After nearly a century, an epic tradition returned to Chicago–a river swim through downtown. And UIC assistant professor Abhilasha Shrestha and her students helped make it possible.
New research from SPH found that Black men who live in neighborhoods with high rates of violent crime have elevated levels of cortisol in their hair. Cortisol is a measure of chronic stress.
Nearly half of US counties do not have obstetricians and gynecologists. Research findings suggest that three decades of laws targeting abortion providers have resulted in this shortage and have obstructed access to women’s health care.
UIC SPH's work on the Data Ambassadors Program and the Healthy Work Initiative's Worker Protection Program contributed to two National Association of Counties Awards for Cook County.
Welcome Babatunde Olowokure, MD, MPH, PhD as the new Associate Dean for Global Health and Professor in the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. With 35 years of global health leadership, we are excited to have him join SPH.
Fostering the next generation of public health leaders with its pilot program, Chicago Public Health Innovators, UIC SPH exposes high schoolers to public health, leadership, and career options in the field.
Every morning from Memorial Day to Labor Day, undergraduate and graduate student researchers retrieve and test water samples from local beaches in Chicago, and report the results to the park district. No other U.S. city tests their water daily.
