Author: Marynia

• April 22, 2022

  ChiVes Data Collaborative: Uncovering the Nature of Chicago’s Environment

  Chicago’s urban environment has profound impacts on the health of communities and individuals. A handful of key metrics―tree cover, air pollution estimates, heat island effects, traffic volumes, and social vulnerability index― help to reveal where in the city people face particular challenges as we work towards a healthier Chicago. With an eye toward the sustainable…
• April 19, 2022

  Does Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Match Community Vulnerability?

  During the COVID-19 pandemic, the disruption and shortage of treatment options for people with opioid use disorder (OUD) has been linked to significantly higher rates of overdose deaths across the country. How might an improved understanding of current community-level availability of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) inform future responses to pandemics or natural disasters…
• March 24, 2022

  Listen: Marketplace highlights new research on internet access

  Cross-posted from Atlas Insights: The US Covid Atlas blog.  The nationally syndicated radio show and podcast Marketplace Tech interviewed postdoctoral scholar and US Covid Atlas co-lead Dr. Qinyun Lin (pictured above) this week on our latest research exploring the social determinants of health associated with higher COVID-19 mortality across different regions and communities. Published in the journal JAMA Network…
• March 4, 2022

  Assessment of Structural Barriers and Racial Group Disparities of COVID-19 Mortality

  COVID-19 highlights disparities in healthcare access & challenges facing US counties. Our team’s article in JAMA Network Open identifies relationships between structural barriers & racial/ethnic disparities of COVID mortality using spatial analysis. Data for the whole country available by race and age is at the regional scale – not every state provides race and age…
• February 28, 2022

  Big Data, Government Policy and Defeating COVID

  This month, Dr. Kolak of HEROP connected with leading scholars to discuss how data can be used to inform policy to defeat COVID, the emerging wave in Hong Kong, what happened in the US via the Covid Atlas, & brainstorming international, evidence-based cooperations to combat pandemics. More information about the talk can be found at…
• January 28, 2022

  New RAs Join the Lab on Opioid Environment, Redlining Research Projects

  The Healthy Regions & Policies Lab is thrilled to welcome three new RAs and five returning RAs for the Winter 2022 term. HEROP Research Assistants (RAs) are UChicago students from multidisciplinary academic and professional backgrounds that have taken coursework in and are passionate about applying spatial analysis and GIScience to real-world applications. RAs work closely…
• October 26, 2021

  New Research on Dimensions of Uncertainty: A Spatiotemporal View of Five COVID-19 Datasets

  Research scientists from the US COVID Atlas team at the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (HEROP) are pleased to share their new article, Dimensions of Uncertainty: A Spatiotemporal View of Five COVID-19 Datasets, which was published this week in the journal Cartography and Geographic Information Sciences. Dylan Halpern, Qinyun Lin, and Marynia Kolak from HEROP…
• October 21, 2021

  October Seminar & Journal Club on Neighborhood Change

  The Healthy Regions & Policies Lab & the Center for Spatial Data Science Invites You: Sequence Methods in the Study of Neighborhood Change Wei Kang, PhD University of California, Riverside Inland Center for Sustainable Development Tuesday, October 26th Invited Talk October 26th @9:00 CST (Register Here) There is a recent surge in research focused on…
• October 14, 2021

  SSD Student Profile: Margot Bolanos-Gamez

  Margot Bolanos-Gamez worked with the Healthy Regions + Policies Lab this summer as her summer RAship through the Social Institute in Social Research Methods (SSIRM). Organized by the Social Sciences Division (SSD) at UChicago, the Institute exposes students to the ins and outs of social science research through coursework, workshops and hands-on experience. Last summer,…
• October 12, 2021

  Announcing RFP: Oral Histories Production Project

  The US COVID Atlas aims to bring a human perspective to a world saturated with COVID-19 data. The US COVID Atlas (USCovidAtlas.org) is a free, interactive data visualization tool, led by the Healthy Regions + Policies Lab and Center for Spatial Data Science at UChicago, that connects COVID-19 data with community health contexts to deliver…