Category: Community
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Three Years Later: An Overview
COVID-19: Three Years Later is the second workshop of a three-part community-based webinar series co-sponsored by the US COVID Atlas, a project of the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (HeRoP). The goal of this workshop was to discuss the Pandemic’s unequal effects on Black communities. Keynote speaker, Jamelle Watson-Daniels from Harvard University, spoke about…
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Data, Action, Policy: The Pandemic’s Impact on Black Communities
Join us to discuss and call for data needs & action related to Covid-19 in Black Communities, learn about emerging research on the social determinants of health & the pandemic, & get access to toolkits & resources to support advocacy efforts and grant applications. Register for the workshop at: go.illinois.edu/3YrsLater Overview Keynote Talk by Jamelle Watson-Daniels, Harvard…
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Tres Años Después: An Overview
Our community plática aimed to describe how the Pandemic has uniquely affected the Latinx community, and how we can turn data into action. This community event was the first in a series of workshops co-sponsored by the US Covid Atlas, a project of the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (HEROP). The goal of the workshops…
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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…
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Welcoming Fall 2021 Research Assistants
HEROP is thrilled to welcome three new and five returning student Research Assistants (RAs) for the Fall 2021 quarter at UChicago.
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Evaluating Access for Opioid Risk Environments
This summer we are pleased to share research highlights from our Spatial Data Science Summer Fellows, showcasing their work on the US COVID Atlas and opioid risk environment research projects. This week, Data Science Fellow Rachel Vigil (BA ’22) shares an update on her work on evaluating measures of access for opioid risk environment research projects. …
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Welcoming HeRoP’s 2021 Spatial Data Science Fellows
The HeRoP Lab is is delighted to welcome six talented and passionate Spatial Data Science (SDS) Fellows this summer. Learn more about these students and their research projects.
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