Author: Marynia
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OurAir: A New Mapping Platform for Chicago’s Air Quality
OurAir Chicago is a mapping dashboard designed to connect air quality data with scientific exploration, community empowerment, and advocacy. Healthy Regions and Policies Lab led the development of the dashboard project, in collaboration with UIC and multiple community partners.
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Welcoming Dr. Fath (Sandborn) as new Postdoc Scientist
The Healthy Regions Lab is thrilled to bring on Dr. Hilary Fath (Sandborn) as the new Postdoctoral Research Scientist supporting the Localize Opioid Use Disorder (LOUD) Study, and the SDOH & Place Project. Hilary joins us from University of North Carolina at Chapin-Hill, where she completed her PhD under the supervision Dr. Paul Delameter at…
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Research Innovations Presented at 2026 Global Health Conferences
The Summer of 2026 was a busy one for the Healthy Regions & Policies team! Lab members presented research papers, held workshops, and traveled across the world to share their latest work and make new connections. Academic conferencing is one of the best ways to get feedback on your work, be inspired by others, and…
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Call for Abstracts for 3rd Annual SDOH & Place Symposium
The SDOH & Place Symposium is a meeting for SDOH researchers, practitioners, and advocates to share their work on measuring SDOH and linking public health with geography, GIScience, and social science. The 3rd Annual SDOH & Place Symposium will be held in downtown Chicago from September 23-September 25th, 2026. The Symposium is an intentionally smaller event,…
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PhD Candidate M. Gadri Earns Health Geography Award
Mandela Gadri, a member of the HEROP Lab, is the recipient of the Messina-Stanley Graduate Scholarship in Medical and Environmental Geography for the 2025–2026 academic year. Dr. Kolak notes that Mandela “consistently brings together technical skill, conceptual clarity, and practical relevance in ways that are increasingly necessary for addressing uneven access to transportation and opportunity…
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Understanding EJ Technospaces: A New Perspective
Check out the HEROP’s lab latest article on understanding & advancing environmental justice (EJ) technologies and technospaces, published with open, free access at Wellbeing, Space & Society. The article reviews EJ technologies from Pellow’s view of Environmental Inequality Formation, tracing perspectives across national, state, and regional applications like EJ Screen. We include a survey of…
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