SPH analysis on data from 2010-2015 on Illinois injuries and deaths in legal interventions finds many people injured are ultimately never placed in custody of law enforcement.
Researchers at SPH and across UIC are offering free rapid diagnostic testing for COVID-19 in vulnerable Chicago communities and performing genomic sequencing on the samples to identify variants.
Maggie Acosta and Alexis Grant|Posted on August 09, 2021
SPH's Alexis Grant and Maggie Acosta question the barriers to public health education for people whose lived experiences are most affected by social determinants of health.
Divers often enter waters with limited information on water quality, but new artificial intelligence systems under development at SPH may offer protection against waterborne pathogens.
SPH's Collaboratory for Health Justice is one of 35 recipients of public health-focused grants from the MacArthur Foundation, funding that will build reciprocal relationships with CBOs and foster youth citizen scientists.
With rat behavior changing drastically at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, SPH alumna Dorothy Maffei argues in new research the impact on human health should be viewed as a community health challenge.
New research co-authored by SPH's Jyotsna Jagai finds land-based and water-based environmental exposures may be driving risks of aggressive prostate cancer.
SPH's World Health Organization Collaborating Center works with occupational health practitioners in Ghana and Nigeria to reduce emissions of and exposure to mercury among artisanal gold miners.
UIC's Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19 Disparities initiative will focus on strengthening COVID-19 vaccine confidence and access in Chicago-area Black and Latino communities.
