The UIC School of Public Health responds to acts of bias, discrimination and stigma on the basis of their perceived identity as persons of Asian descent during COVID-19.
The Illinois Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center at the UIC School of Public Health worked with public health agencies to prepare for disasters of all types.
Block Club Chicago featured a collaboration co-led by SPH's UIC Center for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health to equip expectant moms in the city with masks.
Alexis Grant and Jeni Hebert-Beirne, PhD, SPH Collaboratory for Health Justice|Posted on April 24, 2020
With the pandemic revealing health inequities and systemic racism, the SPH Collaboratory for Health Justice offers recommendations for community engaged work on COVID-19.
Alexis Grant and Jeni Hebert-Beirne, PhD, SPH Collaboratory for Health Justice|Posted on April 23, 2020
The School of Public Health's Collaboratory for Health Justice calls for partnership with communities of color for research and action on disparities in COVID-19 deaths.
SPH's Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health is teaming up with area organizations to collect and distribute face masks for pregnant people during COVID-19.
SPH's Naoko Muramatsu details the specific risks home care aides face, including lack of access to remote work and their own personal health risks as older workers.
SPH's Dr. Mark Dworkin, professor of epidemiology, was interviewed by the advocacy group in an analysis of Illinois' response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
SPH's Sage Kim examines how health disparities embedded in the social structure of Chicago lead to the disproportionate share of COVID-19 deaths among Black residents.
