Category: General

• 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

• Spatial Data Science Mini Grant

  

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  Marynia

  March 8, 2021

  General, Opportunities

• Feb 19: The US Covid Atlas @ Computation + Journalism Symposium 2021

  

  The US COVID Atlas project will be presenting insights and reflections on the recent development of the Atlas 2.0 at the Northeastern Computation + Journalism Symposium, Data Journalism in an Expanded Field. Details below! Feb 19, 2021, Register Here Speaker: Dylan Halpern, Principal Software Engineer COVID-19 has dominated attention, media, and life around the world in…

  Marynia

  February 12, 2021

  COVID, Events, General

• Introducing HEROP!

  

  We’re excited to share the new Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (HEROP), formalized across multiple projects and growing collaborations.   image by opensourceway :: CC BY-SA 2.0

  Marynia

  September 18, 2020

  General