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Neural Sensing and Urban Environments: HEROP Speaker Series

Linking human brain with urban environments using emerging GIS approaches. Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at the next installment of the HEROP Speaker Series on Friday, February 27th, at 12 PM CST. Lunch will be served from 12-12:30pm, so please join us in person a bit early to eat & mingle! Jiaxin Feng,…

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Design

Summer 2026 SDOH Design Fellowship Now Open

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.

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Events

Exploring Historic Maps for Structural Racism Research

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 &…

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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…

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Community

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…

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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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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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