News

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…

by Marynia August 25, 2026

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…

by Marynia August 18, 2026August 18, 2026

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…

by metamarc24 August 11, 2026August 11, 2026

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,…

by Marynia June 5, 2026June 12, 2026

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…

by metamarc24 May 19, 2026May 19, 2026

Awards

PhD Candidate M. Gadri Earns Health Geography Award

Mandela Gadri, a member of the HEROP Lab, is the recipient of the Messina-Stanley Graduate Scholarship in Medical and Environmental Geography for the 2025–2026 academic year. Dr. Kolak notes that Mandela “consistently brings together technical skill, conceptual clarity, and practical relevance in ways that are increasingly necessary for addressing uneven access to transportation and opportunity…

by Marynia May 6, 2026May 11, 2026

Design

Making maps make sense: HEROP Speaker Series

The HEROP Speaker Series invites participants to explore “Our Bodies, Our Places, Our Stories” on March 27th at 12 PM CT. Featuring Dr. AJ Kim, the event discusses marginalized communities’ hidden health resources through qualitative spatial data. Options for in-person and virtual attendance are available, promoting dialogue on social determinants of health.

by rloftus April 9, 2026April 9, 2026

ChiVes

Understanding EJ Technospaces: A New Perspective

Check out the HEROP’s lab latest article on understanding & advancing environmental justice (EJ) technologies and technospaces, published with open, free access at Wellbeing, Space & Society.

The article reviews EJ technologies from Pellow’s view of Environmental Inequality Formation, tracing perspectives across national, state, and regional applications like EJ Screen.

We include a…

by Marynia March 29, 2026

Built Environment

Counter-mapping in Marginalized Communities: HEROP Speaker Series

by rloftus March 10, 2026March 16, 2026

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