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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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  • April Speaker Series: Spatial Epidemiology in Action

    Spatial Epidemiology in Action: Insights from Disease Surveillance Programs. Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at the next installment of the HEROP Speaker Series on Friday, April 25th, at 12 PM CDT. Lunch will be served from 12-12:30pm, so please join us in person a bit early to eat & mingle! Csaba Varga, DVM,

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  • March Speaker Series: ConnectedNest

    ConnectedNest: Addressing Unmet Health Related Social Needs of People with Cancer Using Local Community Based Organizations. Join us for brunch, learning, and conversation at the next installment of the HEROP Speaker Series on Friday, March 14th, at 10 AM CDT. Brunch will be served from 10-10:10am, so please join us in person a bit early

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  • The Urgency of SDOH Data

    The Urgency of SDOH Data: Increasing Access w/ Human-Centered Data Science Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at the next installment of the HEROP Speaker Series on Thursday, Feb. 6th at 12:30 PM CDT. Lunch will be served from 12-12:30p, so please join in person a bit early to eat & mingle! The Healthy

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  • GIS Day 2024 – Community Georeferencing of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

    This past GIS Day, November 20th, 2024, we at the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab hosted a “georeference-a-thon,” and created historical map mosaics of Champaign-Urbana in 1915.

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  • SDOH & Place Fellowship—Call for Applications 2025

    SDOH & Place Fellowship 2025 Applications Open! January 21, 2025 Herop Lab The SDOH & PLACE Fellowship is a part-time virtual program of the new 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

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  • Geospatial Data Science in Drug Use Research

    Virtual NIDA Workshop on Geospatial Data Science Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Time: 12-4PM EST (9-1PM PST) Register here | Agenda posted here Join the National Institutes on Drug Abuse in a virtual webinar to explore how we can harness the power of geospatial data science to advance our understanding of the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of drug

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  • Call for SDoH Measurement “Research Guide” Reports

    Generate a public-friendly short report on the measurement of a specific social determinant of health topic for a national RWJF project: SDOH & Place. There is greata ootential to expand your report with an expert in your field to a manuscript, leveraging access to a network of scholars studying Community-Level SDOH. U.S. based scholars participating…

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  • Access, Time, & the Social Determinants of Health

    The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) at the American Association of Geographers is thrilled to invite you to an upcoming online webinar! Join us for an hour of insightful discussion on a health geography topic of immense significance.

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  • Building Data Equity #APHA2024

    Marynia Kolak, Keon Gilbert, Erica Walker, MSc, ScD, and moderator George Hobor shared insights on building data capacity at this year’s American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, improving data accessibility, and prioritizing community voice and engagement in the data collection process.

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