Since its inception in 1978, UHP has recruited, retained and graduated more than 7,000 traditionally underrepresented students who now work in health-related fields.
SPH hosted Dr. Camara Jones, Senior Fellow of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Cardiovascular Research Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine, to discuss racism's effects on community health.
The public health and ethical impacts of genomic screening are the focus of a new paper co-authored by the School of Public Health’s Kee Chan, PhD, clinical assistant professor of health policy and administration.
The Center for Healthy Work at the UIC School of Public Health is addressing the health challenges of precarious work by bringing together health leaders to engage with labor and government.
Professor Robert Bailey’s groundbreaking work in Kenya promoting circumcision as an intervention for HIV/AIDS has opened the door for other School of Public Health faculty members to pursue projects in the East African nation.
Associate Professor Basmattee Boodram is designing interventions through a pair of National Institutes of Health grants to address and eliminate Hepatitis C transmission among opioid users.
Hua Yun Chen is a professor of biostatistics whose research has been focused on developing innovative statistical methods for analyzing complex health science data.