Category: Social Determinants of Health
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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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CFP for AAG 2024: Place & SDOH Symposium
Place & the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health Symposium CFP for AAG Annual Meeting 2024Honolulu, Hawai’i, April 16 – April 20, 2024 Submission Deadline: November 16, 2023 Sponsoring AAG Specialty Groups: Health & Medical Geography, Community Geographies Collaborative, Geographic Information Science and Systems Description The Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) refer to the wide range of…
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Data, Action, Policy: The Pandemic’s Impact on Black Communities
Join us to discuss and call for data needs & action related to Covid-19 in Black Communities, learn about emerging research on the social determinants of health & the pandemic, & get access to toolkits & resources to support advocacy efforts and grant applications. Register for the workshop at: go.illinois.edu/3YrsLater Overview Keynote Talk by Jamelle Watson-Daniels, Harvard…
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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
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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…
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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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Listen: Marketplace highlights new research on internet access
Cross-posted from Atlas Insights: The US Covid Atlas blog. The nationally syndicated radio show and podcast Marketplace Tech interviewed postdoctoral scholar and US Covid Atlas co-lead Dr. Qinyun Lin (pictured above) this week on our latest research exploring the social determinants of health associated with higher COVID-19 mortality across different regions and communities. Published in the journal JAMA Network…
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Assessment of Structural Barriers and Racial Group Disparities of COVID-19 Mortality
COVID-19 highlights disparities in healthcare access & challenges facing US counties. Our team’s article in JAMA Network Open identifies relationships between structural barriers & racial/ethnic disparities of COVID mortality using spatial analysis. Data for the whole country available by race and age is at the regional scale – not every state provides race and age…