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COVID-19 Guide for Workers in Illinois

Three centers at the UIC School of Public Health published a guide detailing current federal and state protections for workers and benefits available during the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Alumnus Featured on "Doctor in the House"

Karriem Watson, MPH in Community Health Sciences '10, was featured on WVON's weekly medical show analyzing the effects of COVID-19 on Chicago's Black population.

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Business Insider Focuses on Office Layouts

SPH's Apostolis Sambanis, PhD '16 and MPH '12, was featured in Business Insider addressing steps for reopening offices in the wake of COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders.

Illustration of contact tracing, showing how an infected person infects another out of a group of people.  The new infected person then infects a new person in a different group, and so on.

ABC 7 Story Focuses on Contact Tracing

In an interview, SPH's Dr. Mark Dworkin focused on the urgent need for contact tracing after lack of availability of testing allowed COVID-19 infections to spread across Illinois.

John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, seen from street level.

Preparing Safe Workplaces to Reopen the Economy

SPH's Occupational Health Service Institute is working to ensure essential workers have protections in place and those not at work can safely return during the COVID-19 outbreak.

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How Simulations Developed Illinois' COVID Response

The Illinois Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center at the UIC School of Public Health worked with public health agencies to prepare for disasters of all types.

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In the News: Masks for Moms Volunteer Program

Block Club Chicago featured a collaboration co-led by SPH's UIC Center for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health to equip expectant moms in the city with masks.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot addresses issues of racial equity at a COVID-19 press conference.

A Case for Investing in Academic-Community Engagement: COVID-19

With the pandemic revealing health inequities and systemic racism, the SPH Collaboratory for Health Justice offers recommendations for community engaged work on COVID-19.