by Susan Paykin | Apr 22, 2022 | Air Quality, Built Environment, ChiVes, Open Science
Chicago’s urban environment has profound impacts on the health of communities and individuals. A handful of key metrics―tree cover, air pollution estimates, heat island effects, traffic volumes, and social vulnerability index― help to reveal where in the city...
by Susan Paykin | Apr 19, 2022 | Open Science, Opioids, Social Determinants of Health
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the disruption and shortage of treatment options for people with opioid use disorder (OUD) has been linked to significantly higher rates of overdose deaths across the country. How might an improved understanding of current community-level...
by Susan Paykin | Mar 24, 2022 | COVID, Publications, Social Determinants of Health, US Covid Atlas
Cross-posted from Atlas Insights: The US Covid Atlas blog. The nationally syndicated radio show and podcast Marketplace Tech interviewed postdoctoral scholar and US Covid Atlas co-lead Dr. Qinyun Lin (pictured above) this week on our latest research exploring the...
by Susan Paykin | Jan 28, 2022 | Community, General, Opportunities, Students
The Healthy Regions & Policies Lab is thrilled to welcome three new RAs and five returning RAs for the Winter 2022 term. HEROP Research Assistants (RAs) are UChicago students from multidisciplinary academic and professional backgrounds that have taken coursework...
by Susan Paykin | Oct 26, 2021 | COVID, Publications, US Covid Atlas
Research scientists from the US COVID Atlas team at the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (HEROP) are pleased to share their new article, Dimensions of Uncertainty: A Spatiotemporal View of Five COVID-19 Datasets, which was published this week in the journal...
