Category: COVID
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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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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US COVID Atlas Wins Honorable Mention in 2021 Innovation by Design Awards
The US COVID Atlas is honored to be recognized by Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards for 2021, receiving honorable mention in the Pandemic Response category. The project is led by the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab and the Center for Spatial Data Science at University of Chicago. We are thrilled to be included among…
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