UIC’s COVID-19 Public Health Response

As the world addresses the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, faculty and researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health are playing leading roles in the response in Chicago, Cook County and the State of Illinois.  With our mission orientation toward protecting and strengthening health equity and justice for vulnerable populations, our faculty and researchers are collaborating with local health departments, city and state leadership, local hospital systems, community organizations and private sector businesses to protect human health, analyze epidemiological data, address the economic fallout and recommend policies and practices to mitigate the outbreak in the short term and to prepare long-term for future public health challenges.

SPH Emergency Fund Application Spring 2023

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A patient at a UIC long COVID clinic takes a blood test.
In it for the long haul
Monday, July 18, 2022
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 healthcare professional inserts a nasal swab into the nose of a COVID-19 patient.
A $22 million post-COVID research project now recruiting in Chicago
Thursday, March 31, 2022
UIC is leading an Illinois-based research consortium with funding from the National Institutes of Health to research the health effects of long COVID.
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
Monday, 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.

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With our mission to strengthening health equity and justice for the most vulnerable fully in mind, we have prepared a library of resources with fact sheets in a diverse array of languages, CDC resources, health and wellness strategies, guidances for businesses and employers resources for workers and more.

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