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  • CFP for AAG 2024: Place & SDOH Symposium

    Place & the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health Symposium CFP for AAG Annual Meeting 2024Honolulu, Hawai’i, April 16 – April 20, 2024 Submission Deadline: November 16, 2023 Sponsoring AAG Specialty Groups: Health & Medical Geography, Community Geographies Collaborative, Geographic Information Science and Systems Description The Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) refer to the wide range of

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  • October Speaker Series: Creating OldInsuranceMaps.net

    Creating A Public Space for Georeferencing Historical Sanborn Maps Adam Cox, MS, MLIS. Friday, October 27th @ 12 pm CST sat the 2049 Natural History Building or on Zoom. At 1:00 pm CST, after the talk, we will also be hosting a brown bag networking session until 1:30pm. Adam Cox, MS, MLIS, will present about

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  • Communities of Resilience: Urbana Farmers Market Interviews 

    How has Covid-19 affected your community? Even within communities, the question generates a variety of answers. The US Covid Atlas team, in partnership with Truth and Documentary, asked patrons of the Urbana Farmers’ Market various questions about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a community event expanding the Atlas Stories, which connects Covid

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  • September Speaker Series: Alavez on Grief & Loss

    Join us this Friday for our first talk of the HEROP Speakers Series, and we’re excited to co-sponsor with the Department of Geography & GIScience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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  • COVID & Rural America: Assets & Challenges

    This community event was the third in a series of workshops co-sponsored by the US COVID Atlas, a project of the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (HEROP). The workshops aim to connect with communities disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic, share resources, and discuss how to effectively translate data into action. As such, our third

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  • Thank you 2022/2023 RAs!

    In May 2023, 8 Healthy Regions Research Assistants graduated and migrated. We are thankful for their meaningful contributions and wish them the best in their future endeavors. Graduating RAs We are so proud of our 2023 graduates! These RAs worked at the HeRoP Lab as they completed their studies. Dr. Wataru Morioka earned his Ph.D.

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  • Three Years Later: An Overview

    COVID-19: Three Years Later is the second workshop of a three-part community-based webinar series co-sponsored by the US COVID Atlas, a project of the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (HeRoP). The goal of this workshop was to discuss the Pandemic’s unequal effects on Black communities.   Keynote speaker, Jamelle Watson-Daniels from Harvard University, spoke about

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  • Data, Action, Policy: The Pandemic’s Impact on Black Communities

    Join us to discuss and call for data needs & action related to Covid-19 in Black Communities, learn about emerging research on the social determinants of health & the pandemic, & get access to toolkits & resources to support advocacy efforts and grant applications. Register for the workshop at: go.illinois.edu/3YrsLater Overview Keynote Talk by Jamelle Watson-Daniels, Harvard

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  • Tres Años Después: An Overview

    Our community plática aimed to describe how the Pandemic has uniquely affected the Latinx community, and how we can turn data into action. This community event was the first in a series of workshops co-sponsored by the US Covid Atlas, a project of the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (HEROP). The goal of the workshops

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  • Seeking Postdoctoral Scholar in 2023

    We are seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar to work on a new project to advance health equity with improved social determinant of health (SDOH) data discovery and community practice tools for health researchers, policymakers, and community organizations.  @Healthy Regions & Policies Lab     @Department of Geography & GIScience     @UIUC The Project The PLACE

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