Category: Community

• 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…

  jcorra20

  March 3, 2023

  Community, COVID, Uncategorized, US Covid Atlas

• New RWJF Grant Awarded to Support SDOH Data Discovery & Empower Community Practice

  The Health Regions & Policies Lab was recently awarded $1.4 million over the next two years to work on a new project to advance health equity with improved social determinant of health (SDOH) data discovery and community practice tools for health researchers, policymakers, and community organizations

  Marynia

  November 30, 2022

  Community, General, Open Science, Social Determinants of Health

  community practice, data discovery, design thinking, human centered design, sdoh, Social Determinants of Health, spatial data, toolkit, web application

• 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…

  Marynia

  January 28, 2022

  Community, General, Opportunities, Students

• 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.

  Marynia

  October 4, 2021

  Community, General, Opportunities, Students

• 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. …

  Marynia

  August 30, 2021

  Community, Opioids, Students

• 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.

  Marynia

  June 17, 2021

  Community, General, Opportunities, Students