Category: Place Project

February 6, 2026

Join the SDOH & Place Design Fellowship for Public Health Innovation

The SDOH & Place Design Fellowship is a remote, project-based program sponsored by the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (HeRoP). We are seeking a detail-oriented Product/UX Designer to support the SDOH & Place initiative, a project dedicated to making complex Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) data accessible for public health planning and community advocacy.
January 12, 2026

SDOH & Place Fellowship—Call for Applications 2026

The SDOH & Place Fellowship 2026, hosted by the University of Illinois, seeks applicants in health equity for a part-time virtual program. Participants will create place-based visualizations using social determinants of health data. With applications due February 28, 2026, the program includes workshops, stipends, and a conference.
December 19, 2025

Highlights from the SDOH & Place Symposium 2025

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…
July 2, 2025

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…
June 11, 2025

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!
November 12, 2024

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…
October 31, 2024

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.
October 18, 2024

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…
July 24, 2024

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…
May 7, 2024

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…