UIC School of Public Health

✨New semester, new me✨

Manifesting health, learning, and community in 2025

What’s in and what’s out for the new year 🌟

Let us know yours in the comments below!

Onto the next chapter, future public health leaders! Once a Flame, always a Flame 🔥

UIC School of Public Health is excited to have 37 students graduating this fall. Congratulations graduates!

This , you can help UIC School of Public Health continue to make a world class public health education accessible and affordable to any student with a passion for public health.

And by contributing now, SPH Dean Giles and Senior Associate Dean Chriqui are offering to match your generosity! There’s still time to unlock $8,900 matching dollars with a donation today.

Show your support today by visiting https://payment.give.uic.edu/schools/UniversityofIllinoisChicago/givingtuesday/pages/school-of-public-health!

Karriem Watson, DHSc, MS, MPH, UIC SPH MPH alum and former SPH research assistant professor, has been named the new executive director of UI Health Mile Square Health Center!

Watson will lead UI Health’s Federally Qualified Health Center network of clinics that serve communities across Chicago and Rockford.

Read the full announcement at https://today.uic.edu/new-executive-director-named-for-ui-health-mile-square-health-center/

Congratulations to School of Public Health undergraduate student Monica Padilla, who has been named University of Illinois Chicago's 2024 Lincoln Academy Student Laureate. The public health and biological sciences student plans to attend medical school and serve her community as a bilingual physician. Only one senior from each Illinois college is named a Lincoln Laureate each year!

Read more about Monica and the Lincoln Laureate award at https://publichealth.uic.edu/news-stories/sph-student-monica-padilla-receives-uics-lincoln-laureate-award/

The UIC School of Public Health Alumni Awards are an annual opportunity to showcase exceptional alumni who have achieved prominence in their field and made significant contributions to the public's health. Hosted this year at Chicago’s The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, we had the chance to celebrate outstanding alumni from each division of the School of Public Health, joined by members of the UIC SPH community.

Congratulations to our 2024 honorees, we are already looking forward to 2025!

Please join the UIC School of Public Health's Global Health Program on Wednesday, November 20 at 12 PM (CST) for our monthly Global Health Program Speaker Series!

All UIC students, faculty, staff, and the general public are welcome to attend and can register at https://publichealth.uic.edu/events/uic-sph-global-health-program-kick-off-event-mafoko-phomane/

Scenes from American Public Health Association 2024 Annual Meeting!

See UIC SPH in action last week at the largest public health gathering of the year!

LIKE, TAG, SHARE if you know any third or fourth year undergraduate students or recent grads interested in data science and health! Apply: https://publichealth.uic.edu/data-science-in-health-camp/

Today wraps up American Public Health Association’s 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo. Make sure to stop by the final presentations of the conference before you go!

It’s a packed itinerary for UIC School of Public Health this Tuesday at American Public Health Association 2024! Have a look at all of today’s presentations.

Another day at American Public Health Association 2024! Swipe through to check out our Monday schedule of UIC SPH presenters, and as always, view a full list of UIC School of Public Health presenters at https://publichealth.uic.edu/news-stories/meet-sphs-2024-apha-presenters-and-awardees/!

We’re kicking off American Public Health Association 2024 with today’s schedule of presenters! Follow along as we capture content live throughout the day, and be sure to check out a full list of UIC School of Public Health presenters in our APHA guide at https://publichealth.uic.edu/news-stories/meet-sphs-2024-apha-presenters-and-awardees/.

This year, UIC SPH will be represented by 38 presentations at American Public Health Association 2024!

The presentations make up contributions from across SPH, from the DrPH Program in Leadership, Community Health Sciences, UIC Health Policy and Administration, the Institute for Health Research and Policy, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and UIC Collaboratory for Health Justice.

And don’t forget to visit us at Booth #2328 in the Exhibit Hall! 👋

Voting just got easier at University of Illinois Chicago! Civic engagement and public health are deeply intertwined, so cast your ballot today 🗳️

Any permanent resident of Chicago can vote on campus up until Election Day on November 5, in Room 613 in the Tower at the north end of Student Center East.

Come with SPH to Minneapolis! ✈️ 32 faculty, staff, and students will be representing UIC School of Public Health at the American Public Health Association’s 2024 Annual Meeting & Expo, the nation’s preeminent public health conference, from October 27-30.

Follow along in the weeks to come, as we bring you content live from the conference. And view all 38 presentations in our APHA guide, at https://publichealth.uic.edu/news-stories/meet-sphs-2024-apha-presenters-and-awardees/

Congratulations to all our faculty who have received promotions this fall semester! We are proud to showcase all the amazing talent UIC School of Public Health houses, fostering innovation both within and outside of the classroom.

Community Health Sciences’ Basmattee Boodram and Jeni Hebert-Beirne have been promoted to Professor, and Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti has been promoted to Research Professor.

Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences’ Leonard Go has been promoted to Research Associate Professor.

UIC Health Policy and Administration’s Emily Stiehl has been promoted to Clinical Associate Professor.

Epidemiology & Biostatistics’ Zhengjia Nelson Chen has been promoted to Professor, and Caryn Peterson has been promoted to Research Associate Professor.