Category: Opioids
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Seeking Postdoctoral Associate for 2025
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (Dept of Geography & Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). The postdoc will primarily work on an NIH/NIDA-funded project, the LOUD Study, that seeks to localize opioid use disorder response to increase medication access. Their work will focus on validating…
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Geospatial Data Science in Drug Use Research
Virtual NIDA Workshop on Geospatial Data Science Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Time: 12-4PM EST (9-1PM PST) Register here | Agenda posted here Join the National Institutes on Drug Abuse in a virtual webinar to explore how we can harness the power of geospatial data science to advance our understanding of the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of drug…
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How does location impact access to Opioid Use Disorder treatment?
Dr. Marynia Kolak, PI of the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab, will be presenting at the next Pittsburgh Medicine Health Services Seminar! Don’t miss these geospatial insights—register now to join us on Zoom this Thursday, October 24th at noon EST.
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Who gets access to medications for opioid use disorder?
HeRoP Lab’s director Dr. Marynia Kolak was a co-author on two studies recently published in JAMA Open. Both examined different dimensions of access to medications for opioid use disorder, for different populations.
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Does Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Match Community Vulnerability?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the disruption and shortage of treatment options for people with opioid use disorder (OUD) has been linked to significantly higher rates of overdose deaths across the country. How might an improved understanding of current community-level availability of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) inform future responses to pandemics or natural disasters…
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SSD Student Profile: Margot Bolanos-Gamez
Margot Bolanos-Gamez worked with the Healthy Regions + Policies Lab this summer as her summer RAship through the Social Institute in Social Research Methods (SSIRM). Organized by the Social Sciences Division (SSD) at UChicago, the Institute exposes students to the ins and outs of social science research through coursework, workshops and hands-on experience. Last summer,…
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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. …
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Constructing a Model to Study the Built Environment
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, Built Environment Data Science Fellow Christian Villaneuva (BA ’22) shares an update on their work developing a model for measuring the built environment’s impact on…
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Interactive Web Mapping with Opioid Environment Data
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, Summer Institute in Social Research Methods (SISRM) Fellows Margot Bolanos-Gamez (BS and BA ‘23) and Ziqian (Alexa) Jin (BA ‘24) share an update on…
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Call for HEROP Summer Fellows
Healthy Regions & Policies Lab Summer Fellowship Program The Healthy Regions & Policies Lab at the Center for Spatial Data Science is hiring multiple full- and/or part-time Summer Fellows for University of Chicago students (undergraduate or graduate) over the summer of 2021. Fellows will meet with project teams for weekly check-ins, and/or as needed.…
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