Category: Social Determinants of Health

• 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

• 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…

  Marynia

  April 19, 2022

  Open Science, Opioids, Social Determinants of Health

  Collaborative Research, Opioid Environment, Social Vulnerability

• 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…

  Marynia

  March 24, 2022

  COVID, Publications, Social Determinants of Health, US Covid Atlas

  COVID, internet access, pandemic research, sdoh

• 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…

  Marynia

  March 4, 2022

  COVID, Publications, Qinyun Lin, Social Determinants of Health, US Covid Atlas

• Mar 5: Gentrification Seminar Series Event

  

  March Seminar Series: Gentrification Friday, March 5th from 2-3pm CST, Register via Zoom   Join the HeRoP Lab this Friday, March 5th for a seminar series event focused on the multidisciplinary and multidimensional topic of Gentrification. We will have presentations and discussion from a leading expert on the topic as well as emerging work from student scholars. Dr. Somashekhar will provide…

  Marynia

  February 26, 2021

  Events, Social Determinants of Health

• Feb 5: The Black Butterfly by Lawrence Brown

  

  The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America HEROP Seminar Series & Book Release Event Feb 5, 2020 at 2pm CST, Register via Zoom by Lawrence T. Brown (Director, The Black Butterfly Project) The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray’s…

  Marynia

  January 7, 2021

  Events, Social Determinants of Health