Category: Community

• March 14, 2024

  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.
• March 14, 2024

  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…
• October 5, 2023

  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…
• July 11, 2023

  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…
• May 31, 2023

  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…
• April 27, 2023

  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…
• March 3, 2023

  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…
• November 30, 2022

  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
• 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 4, 2021

  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.