Healthy Regions & Policies Lab

News

  • January Speaker Series: Mapping the Past

    Mapping the Past: Historic Maps in Analyses of Structural Racism and Population Health. Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at the next installment of the HEROP Speaker Series on Friday, January 30th, at 12 PM CST. Lunch will be served from 12-12:30pm, so please join us in person a bit early to eat &

    Read more

  • SDOH & Place Fellowship—Call for Applications 2026

    SDOH & Place Fellowship 2026 Applications Open! January 9, 2026 Herop Lab The SDOH & Place Fellowship is a part-time virtual program of the SDOH & Place Project, sponsored by the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with funding in part from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Throughout this

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • Understanding GIS and Health Geography in Dr. Kolak’s New Publication

    Dr. Kolak’s chapter on GIS & Health Geography provides a background on how health geography emerged and was shaped as a field when connected with GIScience perspectives and GISystems, generating new insight into health processes. This chapter updates the previous entry written by Professor Mei Po Kwan in 2014.

    Read more

  • November Speaker Series: Making Smell Count

    Making Smell Count: Invoking olfactory experience in urban wellbeing and spatial analysis. Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at the next installment of the HEROP Speaker Series on Friday, November 21st, at 12 PM CST. Lunch will be served from 12-12:30pm, so please join us in person a bit early to eat & mingle!

    Read more

  • Join Us at APHA 2025: Visit Booth #1418!

    It’s not our first time presenting at APHA, the nation’s premiere public health conference, but it is our first time at the Exhibit Hall! Find us at Booth #1418.

    Read more

  • October Speaker Series: Grad School FAQ

    Grad School FAQ: A Panel Discussion Demystifying the Grad School Application Process & How to Prepare Your Applications Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at the next installment of the HEROP Speaker Series on Friday, October 31st, at 12 PM CDT. Lunch will be served from 12-12:30pm, so please join us in person a

    Read more

  • Innovations in Mapping Health & Structural Drivers of Disease & Well-Being

    Our editorial team (Dr. Kolak with Dr. Yanjia Cao and Dr. Michael Desjardins, Ph.D.) is thrilled to share that the our Collection at the Journal of Maps has been released, built and carefully curated over the past three years!! 😮 🤯 Check it out now at JOM.

    Read more

  • 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

    Read more

  • 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!

    Read more

Subscribe

Stay updated with our latest news by joining our newsletter.

Archive
SEARCH