Category: General

• The Future of Design: HeRoP at Config 2025

  

  The Future of Design: HeRoP at Config 2025 Representing the HeRoP Lab and the University of Illinois, our Senior Product Designer, Shubham Kumar, was at the annual Figma conference held in San Francisco, California. The 3-day conference highlighted the directions in which the design industry is heading and what it means for organizations to push…

  rloftus

  June 5, 2025

  Design, General

  #Config2025, #Design, #Figma, #ProductDesign, #SanFrancisco, #UIUX

• 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…

  Marynia

  June 2, 2025

  Community, General

  climate reslience, community resilience, DisasterPreparedness, globalheatactionday, heat, heatactionplan

• Access, Time, & the Social Determinants of Health

  

  The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) at the American Association of Geographers is thrilled to invite you to an upcoming online webinar! Join us for an hour of insightful discussion on a health geography topic of immense significance.

  Marynia

  November 1, 2024

  Events, General, Social Determinants of Health

  Events, geography, health, medical geography, sdoh

• Seeking SDOH & Geography PhD Students in 2023-2024

  I’m recruiting 1 or 2 new PhD students to start in Fall 2023 who are interested in the structural determinants of health; how social and spatial networks influence health outcomes; and/or developing spatial infrastructures for advancing environmental justice applications. PhD positions are funded, with an expected ~4 years to graduation.

  Marynia

  December 2, 2022

  General

  application, geography, graduate program, job, Open Science, phd, sdoh

• 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

• Call for Book Chapter Proposals for Place & the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health

  We invite chapter proposals on the social-spatial determinants of health for a new text, a volume edited by Drs. Kolak and Moise, to be published in early 2024 by Springer Nature. The book, tentatively entitled Place & the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health, will explore how a spatial perspective enriches our view of the Social Determinants…

  Marynia

  November 21, 2022

  General, Opportunities, Social Determinants of Health

  CFP, sdoh

• 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

• We’re Hiring Research Assistants for Fall 2021 👋

  

  The Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (HEROP) is hiring three new Research Assistant (RA) positions for the Fall 2021 quarter. These positions are open to undergraduate and graduate students. Pay starts at $15/hr, with a time commitment of 8-10 hrs/week. See below for full descriptions. Interested students can apply here. Returning RAs should also indicate…

  Marynia

  August 24, 2021

  General, 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