New research from SPH's Vincent Freeman is exploring how men with elevated body mass indexes may be at heightened risk for prostate cancer and earlier metastases of tumors.
Kirsten Almberg and Robert Cohen|Posted on March 06, 2023
Coal miners have significantly increased odds of death from lung diseases compared to the U.S. general population, and this disparity has also worsened over time with modern miners facing greater risk than their predecessors.
A new program at SPH aims to help schools optimize their violence prevention strategies, in the wake of the largest surge in school shootings over the last two decades.
Sola Maji, led by the UIC School of Public Health and the Safe Water and AIDS Project in Kenya, is bringing solar-powered clean drinking water to people across the African nation.
The UIC School of Public Health will examine how harm reduction strategies can be implemented in rural settings across Illinois, including in areas hit hard by the opioid epidemic.
SPH's co-led Chicago Center for Health and Environment is working with community groups across areas of Chicago lacking political clout to advocate for environmental justice in industry decision-making.
Access to water testing labs is expensive and scarce in many parts of the world, but a novel portable testing system devised by SPH's Abhilasha Shrestha could make rapid testing far more accessible.
Pundits cite the Great Resignation as signs of lack of worker motivation and productivity, but SPH's Elizabeth Fisher with the UIC Center for Healthy Work says the causes are rooted in inequitable and unhealthy work opportunities.
Wallace, an SPH alum and adjunct faculty, joined the Post's "Trust in Science" panel discussion, alongside Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health.
