Tag: place

January 12, 2026

SDOH & Place Fellowship—Call for Applications 2026

The SDOH & Place Fellowship 2026, hosted by the University of Illinois, seeks applicants in health equity for a part-time virtual program. Participants will create place-based visualizations using social determinants of health data. With applications due February 28, 2026, the program includes workshops, stipends, and a conference.
December 19, 2025

Highlights from the SDOH & Place Symposium 2025

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…
December 2, 2025

Understanding GIS and Health Geography in Dr. Kolak’s New Publication

Dr. Kolak’s chapter on GIS & Health Geography provides a background on how health geography emerged and was shaped as a field when connected with GIScience perspectives and GISystems, generating new insight into health processes. This chapter updates the previous entry written by Professor Mei Po Kwan in 2014.
November 11, 2025

Exploring Urban Wellbeing Through Smell: HEROP Speaker Series

Join the HEROP Speaker Series on November 21st at 12 PM CST for Dr. Qingqing Chen’s talk on how olfactory experiences influence perceptions of urban spaces. Her research utilizes interviews and geotagged Twitter data to uncover spatial smell patterns, enhancing understanding of urban wellbeing and sensory diversity. Lunch included for attendees.
June 11, 2025

The 2nd SDOH & Place Symposium—Call for Applications

How do you use SDOH data to understand, support, and advance Healthy Neighborhoods? Have you generated any web applications that map out SDOH in communities? Join us in Chicago this June for the first ever SDOH & Place Symposium!
January 21, 2025

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…
October 18, 2024

The Montgomery, Alabama Asset Map by Amy Kryston—Spring 2024 Cohort

The Montgomery, Alabama Asset Map by Amy Kryston Overview of the SDOH & Place Project FellowshipThe SDOH & Place Project is committed to advancing community health through innovative, equity-focused technology solutions. Earlier this year, fifteen fellows were invited to develop web mapping applications that prioritize community-centered design using the SDOH & Place Toolkit. We are…
October 17, 2024

October Speaker Series: Participatory body mapping of postpartum experiences

Participatory body mapping of postpartum experiences Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at the next installment of the HEROP Speaker Series on Friday, October 25th at 12 PM CDT. Coffee and networking session to follow. For folks outside of the UIUC community, please join us via Zoom! Catalina Alzate MFA, U of Illinois at…
July 24, 2024

The Inaugural SDOH & Place Project 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…
May 24, 2024

May Speaker Series: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Urban Sustainability

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Urban Sustainability: Insights from the LEAM Lab Join us for lunch, learning, and conversation at the next installment of the HEROP Speaker Series on Friday, May 31st at noon. Coffee and networking session to follow. For folks outside of the UIUC community, please join us via Zoom! Brian Deal, PhD & Moazam…