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Conferencing

Geospatial Health Research Symposium

Join us at the AAG Annual Meeting in New York City on February 8-12, 2027 for the annual Geospatial Health Research Symposium! Overview Every year, the GHSRS hosted by the Health & Medical Geography Specialty Group convenes scholars and practitioners from different specialties, institutions, sectors, and continents to share ideas, findings, methodologies, and technologies, establish…

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Air Quality

Getting Healthcare to Act on Air Quality

The HEROP Speaker Series invites attendees to a discussion on air quality’s impact on healthcare, led by Warren Lavey, JD, on Friday, Oct. 23rd, at 12 PM CT, with lunch provided for in-person guests. The event emphasizes healthcare’s role in addressing environmental health and improving community air quality through assessments and expert collaboration.

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Uncategorized

All In for Air Quality: HeRoP Speaker Series

Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at the next installment of the HEROP Speaker Series on Friday, Sep. 18th, at 12 PM CT. Coffee and networking session to follow. For folks outside of the UIUC community, please join us via Zoom! All In For Air Quality: Perspectives on the technical and social commitments needed…

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Community

Welcoming Dr. Fath (Sandborn) as new Postdoc Scientist

The Healthy Regions Lab is thrilled to bring on Dr. Hilary Fath (Sandborn) as the new Postdoctoral Research Scientist supporting the Localize Opioid Use Disorder (LOUD) Study, and the SDOH & Place Project. Hilary joins us from University of North Carolina at Chapin-Hill, where she completed her PhD under the supervision Dr. Paul Delameter at…

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Conferencing

Research Innovations Presented at 2026 Global Health Conferences

The Summer of 2026 was a busy one for the Healthy Regions & Policies team! Lab members presented research papers, held workshops, and traveled across the world to share their latest work and make new connections. Academic conferencing is one of the best ways to get feedback on your work, be inspired by others, and…

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Community

Join Our Free R Workshop on Community Spatial Data Access

Join us for an upcoming free, technical workshop on accessing community spatial data in R. Building on our prior workshop that introduced spatial data, we’ll focus on finding, accessing, and integrating community-level data in an R-spatial environment.  Accessing Community Spatial Data in R August 31, 2026 | 11:30 – 1:00PM CT |  REGISTER by 8/29 This virtual…

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Awards

HeRoP Lab Graduate R. Loftus Earns Jerome D. Fellman Award

Rachel Loftus, HeRoP Lab alum, is this year’s University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recipient of the Jerome D. Fellman Award. The award recognizes her senior thesis work on measuring the impact of public libraries across multiple community-level social determinants of health, from education to health resources, social cohesion, and more. Her work helps towards contributing new…

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Conferencing

Call for Abstracts for 3rd Annual SDOH & Place Symposium

The SDOH & Place Symposium is a meeting for SDOH researchers, practitioners, and advocates to share their work on measuring SDOH and linking public health with geography, GIScience, and social science. The 3rd Annual SDOH & Place Symposium will be held in downtown Chicago from September 23-September 25th, 2026. The Symposium is an intentionally smaller event,…

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Community

Panel Event: Conceptualizing Opioid Geographies

Wednesday, May 20, 2026,3 PM CST via Zoom Join us for a Panel & Roundtable of the Geospatial Consortium & Community of Practice, a collaboration of researchers and practitioners that meet regularly to share, discuss, and learn how geospatial methods, tools, and models can be used to build understanding and develop resources for the opioid…

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