With as many as half of COVID-19 patients have lingering, disabling symptoms, UIC public health leaders and clinicians are now part of an ambitious national effort to figure out why—and how to help.
A series of new research briefs from SPH's Policy, Practice and Prevention research center highlights the sustainability of sweetened beverage taxes as a lever for lowering consumption.
New research from SPH's Maria Argos and colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey highlight risks from wells, which are unregulated for arsenic levels in the United States.
The Collaboratory for Health Justice, in collaboration with SPH faculty Alisa Velonis, release the following statement on access to abortion as a necessity for health justice.
SPH's Julie Maslowsky writes on the challenges teenage Americans will face following the Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade, as teens make up about 12 percent of individuals having abortions nationwide.
With more than two years passed from the murder of George Floyd, SPH's Maggie Acosta reflects on the intersections of Black Lives Matter and environmental justice.
Long established as an environmental health leader in the Chicagoland area, working with both private and public organizations, SPH alumnus Rod Musselman is financially supporting today's students.
SPH's Michael Petros reflects on his leadership and the public health response at the Chicago Department of Public Health in the wake of the Tylenol murders of 1982.
Lee Friedman and Alfreda Holloway-Beth|Posted on May 25, 2022
SPH's Lee Friedman and Alfreda Holloway-Beth are leading a law enforcement epidemiology project to track and describe civilian injuries and fatalities in encounters with law enforcement.
Jun Ma, with SPH's Institute for Health Research and Policy, warns in a new co-authored commentary that the U.S. is in danger of missing the lessons of the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.