A new project led by Dr. Andrew Trotter, MPH '10, is building machine learning applications to model and predict clinical staging and severity of illness among COVID-19 patients.
Dr. Ron Hershow credited improved nursing home practices and increase in the availability of testing as driving the declining proportion of nursing home deaths in Illinois.
Researchers from SPH and the UIC College of Medicine found in barriers to social distancing was a more significant factor than air quality or use of public transportation.
Dr. Mark Dworkin told the Wall Street Journal the primary factor driving COVID surges across the Midwest is public compliance with public health guidelines.
Dr. Mark Dworkin, professor of epidemiology, worked with Glen Ellyn School District 41 to analyze COVID-19 tests results and build a hybrid re-opening model.
Abigail Silva, PhD '13 and MPH '98 in Epidemiology, is leading a new grant funded by the Walder Foundation addressing community spread of COVID-19 in Maywood.
Dean Wayne H. Giles provided a TedX Chicago lecture on strategies for building healthier communities across the city through targeted health interventions.
As a major spike in COVID-19 cases hits Cook County, Illinois in the fall of 2020, SPH researchers are examining spatial analyses to apply lessons from the first wave to the pandemic.
Dr. Mark Dworkin told Yahoo News the current discrepancies between COVID-19 case numbers and fatalities is partially driven by the volume of young people infected.
