More than $460 million in research funding at the university included numerous projects led by SPH researchers, including initiatives aimed at addressing long COVID and building health collaboratives in Chicago neighborhoods.
David Marquez is leading the project with SPH's Policy, Practice and Prevention Research Center, one of 25 Prevention Research Centers established by the CDC.
New research authored by SPH's Jeni Hebert-Beirne finds bladder health can be heavily influenced by social factors, including authority influences that build negative practices for using the bathroom.
David DuBois, SPH's associate dean for research, is the lead author of the report, which examined the effectiveness of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America mentorship programs.
A new policy brief from SPH's Policy, Practice and Prevention (P3RC) Research Center finds that despite an Illinois act, healthy beverages and water are still uncharged in some restaurants and ordering platforms.
People who do not fit the general profile of an opioid user who pass away in a clinical setting may be undercounted, despite the widespread reach of the opioid epidemic.
The Cook County Health Atlas aims to equip members of the public with data and analytical skills to become active players in public health decision-making in their own communities.
Seasonal and migrant farmworkers typically live in extreme poverty, with poor housing, limited transportation, food insecurity, lack of health care and preventive services, and long distances to social services.
