Learn more about the UIC School of Public Health’s Community-Engaged Teaching (CEnT) Initiative, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, by reviewing our spring 2024 newsletter.
MHA students earned the Health Studies Student Leadership Award that recognizes the achievements of an outstanding graduate students in a Chicago healthcare management program.
Samantha Marinello, PhD in Health Policy and Administration '22 is the lead author of a study that found cannabis dispensaries are creating ads targeted at youth or making health claims, both prohibited by law.
UIC's new Center for Health Equity in Cognitive Aging will address the needs of underrepresented groups through funding research, mentoring early-career faculty and connecting UIC to a national network.
SPH's Law Enforcement Epidemiology Project aims to create city, county and statewide databases that track and describe civilian injuries and fatalities in encounters with law enforcement.
Caryn Peterson, PhD, is investigating how stigma and social influence impact the likelihood of HPV vaccinations and screenings, with connections to risks for cervical cancer.
The workgroup's recommendations to the Illinois General Assembly focused on improving housing access and affordability, with an understanding of housing's close ties to community health challenges.
SPH's Kristen Malecki, PhD, chaired the national committee investigating the environmental health effects of the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
With American schools addressing a litany of socioeconomic disparities, SPH researchers are modeling how schools can strengthen mental, physical and emotional health.
The first new pathology standards for black lung disease in more than 50 years were published based on research from the UIC School of Public Health's Mining Education and Research Center.
