Category: Place Project
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The 2025 SDOH & Place Symposium
From June 14th to 15th in Chicago, the SDOH & Place Project Symposium showcased the incredible dedication and innovative approaches of our community in addressing social determinants of health and place-based inequities. Fifteen SDOH & Place Fellows showcased their web mapping applications centered in equity, while community and health leaders joined to share progress in…
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Healthy Regions + NCSA at Geo4Lib Camp 2025
Healthy Regions & NCSA at Geo4Lib Camp 2025 In May 2025, Adam Cox and Pengyin Shan from the SDOH & Place Project team traveled to the University of Minnesota to attend Geo4Lib Camp, a small “unconference” for geospatial librarians and metadata experts from academic institutions across the U.S. Collaborating with members of this group since…
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The 2nd SDOH & Place Symposium—Call for Applications
How do you use SDOH data to understand, support, and advance Healthy Neighborhoods? Have you generated any web applications that map out SDOH in communities? Join us in Chicago this June for the first ever SDOH & Place Symposium!
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Call for SDoH Measurement “Research Guide” Reports
Generate a public-friendly short report on the measurement of a specific social determinant of health topic for a national RWJF project: SDOH & Place. There is greata ootential to expand your report with an expert in your field to a manuscript, leveraging access to a network of scholars studying Community-Level SDOH. U.S. based scholars participating…
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Building Data Equity #APHA2024
Marynia Kolak, Keon Gilbert, Erica Walker, MSc, ScD, and moderator George Hobor shared insights on building data capacity at this year’s American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, improving data accessibility, and prioritizing community voice and engagement in the data collection process.
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The Montgomery, Alabama Asset Map by Amy Kryston—Spring 2024 Cohort
The Montgomery, Alabama Asset Map by Amy Kryston Overview of the SDOH & Place Project FellowshipThe SDOH & Place Project is committed to advancing community health through innovative, equity-focused technology solutions. Earlier this year, fifteen fellows were invited to develop web mapping applications that prioritize community-centered design using the SDOH & Place Toolkit. We are…
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The Inaugural SDOH & Place Project Symposium
From June 14th to 15th in Chicago, the SDOH & Place Project Symposium showcased the incredible dedication and innovative approaches of our community in addressing social determinants of health and place-based inequities. Fifteen SDOH & Place Fellows showcased their web mapping applications centered in equity, while community and health leaders joined to share progress in…
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Introducing the 2024 SDOH & Place Fellows
Exciting news from the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab! We’re thrilled to introduce the 2024 cohort of the SDOH & PLACE Fellowship. This virtual program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, empowers participants to craft impactful visualizations of social determinants of health using spatial data. Learn more about the pioneers who are set to…
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The SDOH & Place Symposium—Call for Applications
How do you use SDOH data to understand, support, and advance Healthy Neighborhoods? Have you generated any web applications that map out SDOH in communities? Join us in Chicago this June for the first ever SDOH & Place Symposium!
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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.
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