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  • 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.

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  • 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!

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  • 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.

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  • 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

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  • 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!! šŸ˜® šŸ¤Æ Check it out now at JOM.

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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 ā€œunconferenceā€ 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 Symposiumā€”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 Postdoctoral Associate for 2025

    We are seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (Dept of Geography & Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). The postdoc will primarily work on an NIH/NIDA-funded project, the LOUD Study, that seeks to localize opioid use disorder response to increase medication access. Their work will focus on validating…

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  • The Future of Design: HeRoP at Config 2025

    The Future of Design: HeRoP at Config 2025 Representing the HeRoP Lab and the University of Illinois, our Senior Product Designer, Shubham Kumar, was at the annual Figma conference held in San Francisco, California. The 3-day conference highlighted the directions in which the design industry is heading and what it means for organizations to push

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  • Global Heat Action Day

    Exposure to heat remains a global challenge as the leading cause of weather-related deaths. On Global Heat Action Day, take a moment to learn about heat stress and what you can do to minimize its effect. If you’re a resident of the City of Chicago, it’s also a great day to share your feedback in…

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