Category: Community
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The 2025 SDOH & Place Symposium
From June 14th to 15th in Chicago, the SDOH & Place Project Symposium showcased the incredible dedication and innovative approaches of our community in addressing social determinants of health and place-based inequities. Fifteen SDOH & Place Fellows showcased their web mapping applications centered in equity, while community and health leaders joined to share progress in…
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The 2nd SDOH & Place Symposium—Call for Applications
How do you use SDOH data to understand, support, and advance Healthy Neighborhoods? Have you generated any web applications that map out SDOH in communities? Join us in Chicago this June for the first ever SDOH & Place Symposium!
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Global Heat Action Day
Exposure to heat remains a global challenge as the leading cause of weather-related deaths. On Global Heat Action Day, take a moment to learn about heat stress and what you can do to minimize its effect. If you’re a resident of the City of Chicago, it’s also a great day to share your feedback in…
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GIS Day 2024 – Community Georeferencing of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
This past GIS Day, November 20th, 2024, we at the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab hosted a “georeference-a-thon,” and created historical map mosaics of Champaign-Urbana in 1915.
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The Inaugural SDOH & Place Project Symposium
From June 14th to 15th in Chicago, the SDOH & Place Project Symposium showcased the incredible dedication and innovative approaches of our community in addressing social determinants of health and place-based inequities. Fifteen SDOH & Place Fellows showcased their web mapping applications centered in equity, while community and health leaders joined to share progress in…
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The SDOH & Place Symposium—Call for Applications
How do you use SDOH data to understand, support, and advance Healthy Neighborhoods? Have you generated any web applications that map out SDOH in communities? Join us in Chicago this June for the first ever SDOH & Place Symposium!
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Seeking SDOH Data Super Users
Do you use social determinants of health (SDOH) data on neighborhoods or communities in your research, advocacy work, and/or classroom? We are developing an “SDOH Super User Group” to learn more about current practices and existing challenges of accessing SDOH data across a wide range of applications.
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Be a Part of Environmental & Climate Justice in Chicago
Be a part of Climate & Environmental Justice in Chicago! Join the team to design & expand ChiVes, a NASA-funded project connecting data on the environment with neighborhoods. Add your and your community’s own stories, photos, events, news and more to the project.Add your own imprint. Co-designers receive $25+ per workshop and can also earn…
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Communities of Resilience: Urbana Farmers Market Interviews
How has Covid-19 affected your community? Even within communities, the question generates a variety of answers. The US Covid Atlas team, in partnership with Truth and Documentary, asked patrons of the Urbana Farmers’ Market various questions about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a community event expanding the Atlas Stories, which connects Covid…
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COVID & Rural America: Assets & Challenges
This community event was the third in a series of workshops co-sponsored by the US COVID Atlas, a project of the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (HEROP). The workshops aim to connect with communities disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic, share resources, and discuss how to effectively translate data into action. As such, our third…
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