The School of Public Health earned the second-most funding across UIC, and SPH's Lisa Powell was recognized as one of the top earners of research funding.
A new $1 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will help expand a program that has helped thousands of people across the country learn about the causes, risks and management of diabetes.
SPH's Sage Kim is investigating links between heightened lung cancer risks for Black Chicagoans and correlations with their exposures to violence in communities and resulting stress, which may increase inflammation that heightens cancer risks.
SPH alum Samantha Marinello found that on average, recreational cannabis markets were associated with a 10 percent increase in motor vehicle accident deaths.
New research from SPH's Vincent Freeman is exploring how men with elevated body mass indexes may be at heightened risk for prostate cancer and earlier metastases of tumors.
Kirsten Almberg and Robert Cohen|Posted on March 06, 2023
Coal miners have significantly increased odds of death from lung diseases compared to the U.S. general population, and this disparity has also worsened over time with modern miners facing greater risk than their predecessors.
A new program at SPH aims to help schools optimize their violence prevention strategies, in the wake of the largest surge in school shootings over the last two decades.
Sola Maji, led by the UIC School of Public Health and the Safe Water and AIDS Project in Kenya, is bringing solar-powered clean drinking water to people across the African nation.
The UIC School of Public Health will examine how harm reduction strategies can be implemented in rural settings across Illinois, including in areas hit hard by the opioid epidemic.