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September 9, 2025

Chronic stress in Black men, measured through hair cortisol, linked to neighborhood violence

UIC study part of collaboration with city barbershops.

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August 19, 2025

UIC study shows how abortion provider laws hinder access to women’s health care

Extra requirements decrease the availability of OB-GYNs overall, the study finds.

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July 28, 2025

UIC is helping to build the next generation of public health leaders

Chicago Public Health Innovators program helps students explore career options.

July 15, 2025

Public health researcher recognized for work on aging, cognitive health and LGBTQ+ communities

Nathaniel M. Tran receives prestigious distinction from the National Institutes of Health.

Isaias Ponpa wears a red shirt and stands in near his office door on UIC's campus. The door has signs encouraging students to remember mental health techniques over the summer.

June 2, 2025

Grad students embed in colleges to improve student mental health

The program in the Jane Addams College of Social Work brings more mental health resources directly to UIC students

Men and women play a board game

April 8, 2025

How UIC researchers are using lotería to emphasize worker health 

The Greater Lawndale Lotería depicts workers like a nurse and a mechanic, plus local landmarks.

Portrait of Lee Friedman, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. (Joshua Clark/University of Illinois Chicago)

September 26, 2022

New study reveals undercount of Cook County opioid deaths  

Opioid deaths may have been undercounted by up to 15% in Cook County, already a national leader in opioid-related deaths.

School of Public Health and Psychiatric Institute

September 26, 2022

School of Public Health data center leads new health database for Cook County

Cook County Health Atlas now available, free to public

June 24, 2022

Arsenic in private well water contributes to low birth weight even at low levels

Association found in largest epidemiologic study of arsenic, birth outcomes to date

April 12, 2022

What is causing the rise in black lung disease?

Study links silica exposure to recent high rates of severe coal workers’ pneumoconiosis

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