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Study finds healthcare sector largely immune to economic downswings

Posted on October 18, 2021

Amidst the severe disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, new research from SPH's Marcus Dillender finds the healthcare sector is particularly stable with respect to economic turmoil.

New research offers estimates of HIV cases in the U.S.

Rob Schroeder | Posted on October 14, 2021

SPH's Leslie D. Williams is the author of new research aiming to accurately track the number of people living with HIV in the United States.

Summer Youth Citizen Scientists Create Research Projects Based in Social Justice

Posted on September 28, 2021

This summer, the Collaboratory for Health Justice, in partnership with One Summer Chicago and the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, hosted a 6-week Youth Citizen Scientist Program. Youth ages 16 – 24 learned…

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail yard on the west side of Chicago.

Industrial Exposures to Schoolchildren in Chicago

Posted on September 20, 2021

In a new environmental justice report, SPH researchers are charting Chicago schoolchildren's exposure to pollutants from rail yards, industrial roads and brownfields.

Study focuses on reducing low-value medical services

Posted on September 13, 2021

New research co-authored by SPH's Betsy Cliff finds patient-doctor conversations can be a useful intervention in eliminating low-value, duplicative and potentially harmful medical services.

Protestors wipe their eyes after tear gas was deployed by police at a George Floyd protest in Washington DC.

Research examines civilian injuries in police encounters

Rob Schroeder | Posted on September 02, 2021

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.

SPH student, alum selected for Fulbright grants

Brian Flood | Posted on August 23, 2021

The awards will fund a quality intervention for pediatric emergency surgery in Uganda and English education for children in rural areas of Spain.

A UIC professor uses a pipette to transfer samples of COVID-19 into different vials.

Next-generation sequencing of community-based COVID-19 samples to detect emerging variants

Posted on August 16, 2021

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.

Divers explore the underwater side of a boat.

Environmental health and AI aim to protect US Navy divers

Jacqueline Carey | Posted on August 02, 2021

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.

New study examines pandemic effects on rats, human health

Rob Schroeder | Posted on July 19, 2021

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.

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