UIC School of Public Health

Announcing the recipient of this year’s UIC School of Public Health Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award: RUSH University professor and chairperson Diane Howard!

“I am incredibly humbled and honored to receive the UIC School of Public Health Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. My time at UIC School of Public Health gave me the knowledge and skills to continue a successful and meaningful career in health management,” Howard said.

Dr. Howard will be honored alongside distinguished alumni from each division of the School of Public Health at this year’s annual alumni celebration at the The Richard H. Driehaus Museum.

You can learn more about Dr. Howard’s award and purchase tickets for the event at https://publichealth.uic.edu/news-stories/diane-howard-named-2024-sph-distinguished-alumni/

Calling all undergraduate juniors, seniors, and recent grads!

Get a glimpse into data science in health with this FREE one-day camp, held in-person on September 28, 2024 at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. Explore general concepts of AI and machine learning, and learn how to manage, analyze, and visualize health data using popular software packages R, Rstudio, and HELIX.

Be sure to share with friends across campus and beyond! Students in all areas of study at any university are encouraged to learn more and apply at https://publichealth.uic.edu/data-science-in-health-camp/

A warm welcome to the new school year from UIC SPH, happy first day! 🔥🎉

Wondering whether to get a COVID booster now, or hold off for new shots on the way? Professor Katrine Wallace spoke to Bloomberg on why some people may want to wait, and others may not.

For the full article, with quotes from Dr. Wallace, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-07-28/covid-is-going-around-do-i-need-a-booster?j=77671&sfmc_sub=226777931&l=1247_HTML&u=1108456&mid=546003729&jb=11&utm_source=MarketingCloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UICtoday_FS_073024&utm_content=Cov

Our third category of UIC School of Public Health Research Article Awards honors early career contributions!

Read winning article “Robust variance estimation in small meta-analysis with the standardized mean difference,” and honorable mention “Simulated workplace protection factor study of a quarter-facepiece elastomeric respirator” here: https://publichealth.uic.edu/public-health-research/research-resources/research-article-awards/

Yesterday was World Hepatitis Day, as designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) – an opportunity to raise awareness and support hepatitis prevention, diagnosis, and treatment efforts. The World Health Organization says that “low coverage of testing and treatment is the most important gap to be addressed in order to achieve global elimination goals by 2030.”

Dr. Basmattee Boodram, Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, has been engaged in research among people who inject drugs, the population driving hepatitis C incidence in the United States for almost 20 years. Dr. Boodram’s National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded recent study of young people who inject drugs and their drug use networks in Chicago and surrounding suburbs show an annual hepatitis C incidence of 10%. At particularly high risk are young people who inject in abandoned buildings in the outdoor drug market areas on Chicago’s West Side.

Dr. Boodram has also been actively working on developing realistic, empirical data-driven computational models for discovering strategies needed to reach the WHO’s goal of HCV elimination.

Congratulations to Dr. Arden Handler for being selected as the 2024 recipient of the Health & Medicine Policy Research Group’s Health & Medicine Award in Research! This award celebrates Chicago-area leaders that exemplify the mission to build power and momentum for social justice and health equity in Illinois. Dr. Handler will be honored at the Health & Medicine Awards Gala September 12th. Learn more: https://www.hmprg.org/event/health-medicine-awards-gala/

Announcing our second batch of UIC School of Public Health Research Article Award winners, this time in the Open category!

Find the link to winning article “Racial/ethnic disparities in exposure to neighborhood violence and lung cancer risk in Chicago,” and honorable mention “Is residential exposure to oil refineries a novel contextual risk factor for coronary heart disease?” here: https://publichealth.uic.edu/public-health-research/research-resources/research-article-awards/

Introducing the articles receiving this year's UIC School of Public Health Research Article Awards! These student first-authored articles are the first in a series of posts where we will be highlighting articles honored with this annual distinction.

Please join us in celebrating the winning article, “Charting the advocacy landscape: A qualitative content analysis of syllabi in public health graduate education,” and honorable mention, “Systemic occupational health needs of gender-based violence advocates: Findings from the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Find the link to these two incredible articles, as well as to those articles yet to be announced, here: https://publichealth.uic.edu/public-health-research/research-resources/research-article-awards/

Congratulations to Emily Stiehl on being selected as one of the American Journal of Health Promotion’s “Twenty under Forty”, which recognizes young professionals who are dedicated to making a sustainable impact in health promotion practices at all levels of society and in every corner of the globe. Read more: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08901171241240248

Cheers to our graduates celebrating with the family, friends, faculty, and staff who supported their journey at the Commencement Reception held at Vintage Lounge May 3rd.

Congratulations to our 2024 bachelors, masters, and doctoral graduates! Join the live stream of today's commencement services on our website: https://tinyurl.com/SPHGrads2024 (opens at 7:15pm). We are excited to be joined by keynote speaker Dr. Olusimbo (Simbo) Ige MD, MS, MPH, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health.

What’s the current state of advocacy instruction in schools and programs of public health? DrPH student Glenn E. Schneider and Dr. Yuka Asada, PhD RD conducted a first of its kind analysis of how advocacy is being taught to public health students and confirms that our current instructional model needs some work. Read the article published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice here: https://bit.ly/3TQYcKz

In his role as director of the Public Health Advocacy Consensus Task Force (PH-ACT), Glenn Schneider describes the findings of this study and outlines the steps already being taken towards developing a more effective Advocacy 2.0 instructional model in this JPHMP Direct post: https://bit.ly/ImprovingAdvocacy

Johns Hopkins BSPH Department of Health Policy and Management de Beaumont Foundation Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health Council on Education for Public Health Public Health Foundation UIC School of Public Health Horizon Foundation University of Maryland School of Public Health

The UIC SPH Population Health Analytics, Metric and Evaluation (PHAME) center was mentioned among several AI and health data science efforts that will benefit from UIC's interdisciplinary pilot Institute for Equitable Health Data Science Research. Learn more about the new institute: https://live.today.uic.edu/pilot-research-institutes-kindle-interdisciplinary-activity-across-uic/

Black Maternal Health Week is recognized annually from April 11-17 to bring attention and action to improving maternal health outcomes for Black mothers and birthing persons across the country. We spoke with Dr. Larelle H. Bookhart, Assistant Professor in UIC Community Health Sciences about her work. See what she had to say https://publichealth.uic.edu/news-stories/raising-awareness-during-black-maternal-health-week-with-dr-larelle-bookhart/

We regret to announce the passing of Dr. Edwin Chen, Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics and one of the founding members of UIC SPH. If you wish to join our memorial service, please RSVP to Dan Albert at [email protected] and indicate any interest in providing remarks. See our event page for more details: https://publichealth.uic.edu/events/memorial-service-for-dr-edwin-chen/

TOMORROW: Join us for a live screening of “The Hills”, a documentary about the steel industry’s toxic legacy on Chicago’s Southeast Side with filmmaker Ines Sommer on April 4, 2024. RSVP for these and other events today at https://bit.ly/4as8uI1!

RSVP for National Public Health Week events today at https://bit.ly/4as8uI1! Here are our features for Day 4: April 4, 2024.

RSVP for National Public Health Week events today at https://bit.ly/4as8uI1! Here are our features for Day 3: April 3, 2024.

RSVP for National Public Health Week events today at https://bit.ly/4as8uI1! Here are our features for Day 2: April 2, 2024.

RSVP today for National Public Health Week events at https://bit.ly/4as8uI1! Here are our features for Day 1: April 1, 2024

Celebrate National Public Health Week at the University Club of Chicago on Tuesday, April 2nd with a distinguished lecture on climate change presented by Kristie L. Ebi, Ph.D., MPH, professor of global health at the University of Washington. RSVP today - only 150 spots available! https://bit.ly/3wX0pwv

National Public Health Week is April 1 - 7. Join UIC SPH for a variety of engaging events. RSVP today! https://bit.ly/3IGUYEp
Learn more about each event here: https://bit.ly/4as8uI1

Congrats to SPH's Hua Yun Chen, PhD, professor of biostatistics, who has been selected as SPH's Golden Apple Award awardee in recognition of outstanding graduate level teaching and unusual service to students at the school.

With the first over-the-counter pill now available at stores in the US, SPH's Julie Maslowsky weighs in on the meaning of the moment.

Opill, first U.S. over-the-counter birth control pill, to hit stores: What to know Perrigo said its contraceptive Opill will be available in the coming weeks. Here’s a primer on cost, side effects, effectiveness and more.

RSVP now for this year's student-led Minority Health Conference! https://lnkd.in/gr_hFMKB

Check out our students honored by the Chicago Health Executives Forum (CHEF)!

MHA students honored at Chicago Health Executives Forum annual meeting | School of Public Health | University of Illinois Chicago MHA students earned the Health Studies Student Leadership Award that recognizes the achievements of an outstanding graduate students in a Chicago healthcare management program.

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SPH's S. Jay Olshansky tells WTTW's Chicago Tonight that concerns of aging regarding President Biden may hold assumptions that aging is a uniform process.

Presidential Election Sheds Light on Brain Health as We Age, Portrayals of Aging in Media “Aging is not a uniform phenomenon that happens equally,” said Jay Olshansky, professor of public health at the University of Illinois Chicago.

SPH's Naoko Muramatsu (photo left) and Tanvi Bhatt with the College of Applied Health Sciences are launching a new UIC center focused on health equity in cognitive aging. https://bit.ly/3SB1TDH