Poster Judging
The annual SPH Student Poster Competition brings us together as a community to recognize and support the superb student-led research that takes place in the school – across all levels from undergraduate studies to doctoral studies. We invite individuals from our SPH faculty, staff, doctoral students, alumni, and community partners to participate as poster judges throughout the week-long event. This is a great opportunity to interact with SPH students to learn about the great work they've been doing.
Please see the following for detailed information on the judging process. For questions, visit our FAQs or contact us at sph-research@uic.edu.
View the 2024 Poster Showcase here!
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Judging Steps
Step 1: Individuals who are interested in judging posters can sign up via the Qualtrics link above this page. Qualifying individuals include UIC students (PhD or DrPH), UIC faculty, UIC staff, UIC alumni, and community partners.
Step 2: Once the Poster Competition LOIs are finalized, judges will be emailed further instructions on official judge registration and competition information.
Step 3: Judges will receive a handbook with detailed instructions ahead of Research and Scholarship Week. The handbook will include a step-by-step demonstration on how to sign up for posters and comment on posters during the poster showcase.
Step 4: The virtual poster competition will open at the start of Research and Scholarship Week and a judging period will follow over the course of the week. Posters and abstracts will be displayed online for a virtual showcase and judges will have the opportunity to submit questions and complete their evaluations online.
Step 5: Throughout the week:
- Judges will post their questions
- Students will answer questions from the judges
- Judges will submit their scores in Qualtrics.
Step 6: Awardees will be announced after the event has concluded.
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Core Criteria
Overall Impact or Criterion Strength Score Descriptor Low 1 Poor 2 Marginal 3 Fair Medium 4 Satisfactory 5 Good 6 Very Good High 7 Excellent 8 Outstanding 9 Exceptional Core Evaluation Criteria
Judges use a standard evaluation form to score posters. Each element is ranked on a scale of 1-9 based on the table above. Elements include:
- Completeness: includes details on background, aims, methods, results, conclusion (or similar)
- Clarity: conveys message without ambiguity
- Background: contextual information/problem, definition/rationale for study or evaluation
- Aims: goals/objectives/choice of a particular solution for evaluation
- Methods: design/data collection procedures/implementation procedures
- Results: findings
- Conclusions: implications/interpretation/impact of results and findings
- Visual Display: summarizes project adequately, effectively, & aesthetically
Additional Evaluation Criteria
All posters will be judged using the core criteria, and posters participating in additional competitions will be scored using the appropriate elements below.
- Undergraduate Competition
- Inclusion of Undergraduate Curricular Themes. Project reflects two or more of the curricular themes below that are revisited throughout the baccalaureate curriculum:
- Health as a Moral Endeavor: Exploring the moral importance of health and healthcare considering individual and societal commitments and obligations including the fair use of limited resources.
- Health Equity: Having equitable access and the means and resources to attain one’s full life potential.
- Life Course Perspective: The cumulative evolutionary, pre-generational, pre-natal, and life events and circumstances that influence health at any one point in time.
- One Health [Human-Animal-Environment]: The inextricable relationship among animal, human, and environmental health as determined by, e.g. evolutionary biology, human behavior, and environmental phenomena.
- Cultural Relevance: The lens through which life events are experienced and interpreted and through which meaning is ascribed.
- Local/Global Impact: Appreciation for the global systems that influence the processes, dynamics, and activities of the world’s populations; health as a multi-faceted state-shaped within, e.g., biological, socio-cultural, geographic, economic, and political contexts.
- Inclusion of Undergraduate Curricular Themes. Project reflects two or more of the curricular themes below that are revisited throughout the baccalaureate curriculum:
Additional Competitions
- Global Health Competition Award: sponsored by the Global Health Program at the UIC School of Public Health, $300 will be awarded to one Master’s student and one Doctoral student who presents the highest scoring poster on a global health topic.
Eligibility: Open to SPH Master’s or Doctoral level students. - Maternal and Child Health Competition Award: sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Program, $250 will be awarded to one student who presents the highest scoring poster on a maternal and child health topic.
Eligibility: Open to students enrolled in the SPH Maternal and Child Health program (MCHP) or the SPH Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology program. - Policy, Practice, Systems and Environmental Change-Oriented Research Award: Sponsored by the Policy, Practice and Prevention Research Center (P3RC) at the UIC School of Public Health, $300 will be awarded to one Master’s student and one Doctoral student who presents the highest scoring poster on a policy, practice, systems, or environmental-change oriented research topic.
Eligibility: Open to SPH Master’s or Doctoral level students
- Community Engaged Research Award: sponsored by the Collaboratory for Health Justice (CHJ), these $250 awards are to be given to one Master’s level and one Doctoral level student in the School of Public Health. This award acknowledges notable research conducted in collaboration with community members to advance the priorities of a community group or community-based organization.
Eligibility: Open to all masters or doctoral students in the School of Public Health. Posters considered for the Community Engaged Research Award must be notable in at least one of the following ways:- Assets of the community are leveraged and / or enhanced by the research.
- Community members are a crucial part of the research team or process (i.e., uses CBPR or PAR methods).
- Research was designed or applied in order to change institutional or local policy or systems to address communities’ identified needs.
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On behalf of the SPH Office of Research Services, we would like to extend a warm and enthusiastic THANK YOU to the judges from our SPH faculty, community members, doctoral students, alumni, and the school-wide staff that helped with the competition. We are inspired to see such a great swell of support and rich exchange of knowledge.
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2024 Judges
A huge thanks to all our judges!
- Abdulkareem Alkahtani
- Abigail Suleman
- Aeysha Chaudhry
- Amber Uskali
- Ananya Saha
- Anna Baccellieri
- Arden Handler
- Barbara Braun Skarha
- Barbara Pearce
- Bethany Bray
- Brenikki Floyd
- Casey Luc
- Chibuzor Abasilim
- David Dubois
- Donna Farley
- Elise Hu
- Elizabeth Copulsky
- Fran Lendacki
- Gracia Simanullang
- Guddi Kapadia
- Isabel Munoz
- Jennifer Kwok
- Jessica Rothstein
- Jim Lifton
- Josh Prudowsky
- Kalycia Watson
- Kathleen Kristensen
- Kathryn Istas
- Kayla Moore
- Kristine Zimmermann
- Lester Arguelles
- Lisa Haen
- Lucille Ray
- Mari Dumbaugh
- Marjorie Kersten
- Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti
- Mehdi Amouei Torkmahalleh
- Michael Petros
- Mike Koetting
- Minji Kang
- Pallabi Deb
- Rebecca Campbell
- Shanta Ghosh
- Sharon Telleen
- Steven Andes
- Veronica Howell
- William Werner
- Zhengjia Chen
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2023 Judges
A huge thanks to all our judges!
- Aeysha Chaudhry
- Allissa Desloge
- Anna Baccellieri
- Barbara Pearce
- Ben Shaw
- Bethany Bray
- Bidisha Gang
- Brad Foster
- Brian Schoneck
- Cameron Zielke
- Caryn Peterson
- Casey Luc
- Chibuzor Abasilim
- Chris Barker
- Cynthia Klein-Banai
- Dagmar Sweeney
- Dan Weiss
- Donna Farley
- Elise Hu
- Elizabeth Copulsky
- Gabriela Gracia
- Gil Hernandez-Arranz
- Grace Cua
- Jacqueline Moses
- James Lifton
- Jennifer Kwok
- Jessica Rothstein
- Julie Maslowsky
- Jun Lu
- Kalycia Watson
- Karen Peters
- Katrina Ivory
- Kayla Moore
- Kirsten Almberg
- Kristen Malecki
- Kristine Zimmermann
- Laura Howenstine
- Lauren LaPine
- Leslie Williams
- Leticia Diaz-Leon
- Li-Ting Longcoy
- Lisa Haen
- Madeline McCarren
- Maggie Weiss
- Marc Atkins
- Marjorie Kersten
- Mary Harvey
- Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti
- Mehdi Amouei Torkmahalleh
- Mhinjine Kim
- Michael Petros
- Minji Kang
- Naoko Muramatsu
- Naomi Thyden
- Naseem Parsa
- Pallabi Deb
- Rebecca Campbell
- Sam Dorevitch
- Sarah Davis
- Saria Lofton
- Shaveta Khosla
- Syeda Imam
- Trang Pham
- William Werner
- Yuan Shao
- Zhengjia Chen
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2022 Judges
A huge thanks to all our judges!
- Adlaide Holloway
- Allison Stapp
- Amber L Uskali
- Amparo Castillo
- Amy Anderson
- Anh Ngo
- Arden Handler
- Ariel Thomas Sansing
- Barbara Braun Skarha
- Basmattee Boodram
- Benjamin Shaw
- Bethany Bray
- Betsy Cliff
- Borris Powell
- Brenikki Floyd
- Caesar Thompson
- Caryn Peterson
- Catalina Ortiz
- Corina Wagner
- Cynthia Klein-Banai
- David L Dubois
- Delcy Sanders
- Eleanor Rivera
- Elizabeth Copulsky
- Emily Stiehl
- Erica McNamara
- Fascia Horvath Edwards
- Garth H Rauscher
- James Lifton
- Jamie Danemayer
- Jamie F Chriqui
- Jennifer Kwok
- Jessica Rothstein
- Joseph Zanoni
- Joy Getzenberg
- Julie Maslowsky
- Karen Peters
- Kirsten Almberg
- Kris Zimmermann
- Laura Howenstine
- Leo Njongmeta
- Leslie Williams
- Lester Arguelles
- Lisa Powell
- Marc Atkins
- Marcus Dillender
- Maria Argos
- Mariam Siddiqui
- Marietta P Harley
- Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti
- Michael Petros
- Michelle Hathaway
- Mike Koetting
- Minji Kang
- Miriam Reyes
- Modena Ozell Stinnette
- Moise-Denis Jean
- Mustafa Almukhtar
- Nadine Peacock
- Nandini Deb
- Naoko Muramatsu
- Nneka Ukegbu
- Prerna Mona Khanna
- Rachelle Paul Brutus
- Samantha Hernandez
- Sanjib Basu
- Shelley Hoover
- Sheri Cohen
- Steven Andes
- Uchechi Mitchell
- Umaima Al-Alem
- Victoria Jasso
- Yadira Herrera
- Yumi Lee
- Zhengjia Chen
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2021 Judges
A huge thanks to all our judges!
- Amy Anderson
- Anders Abelmann
- Anh Ngo
- Arden Handler
- Barbara Braun
- Bob Brewer
- Casey Morgan Luc
- Catherine Zurybida
- Cathi Ortiz
- Chibuzor Abasilim
- Chris Barker
- Colleen Everett
- Daniel Friend
- David DuBois
- Demetrius Porter
- Derrick Tung
- Erica McNamara
- Eve Pinsker
- Fran Jaeger
- George Salter
- Huu Nguyen
- Jennifer Kwok
- Jim Sredzinski
- Joseph Rittmann
- Joseph Ruskiewicz
- Juliet VanEenwyk
- Karen Peters
- Kevin Sherin
- Kris Zimmerman
- Leslie Carnahan
- Leslie Williams
- Mark Bresnik
- Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti
- Michael Petros
- Michelle Mc
- Naoko Muramatsu
- Samantha Marinello
- Santina Wheat
- Shaveta Khosla
- Steve Thompson
- Sydney Fouche
- William Werner
- Yan Gao
- Yuan Shao