UIC Urban Health Program

12/28/2022

Happy Holidays from our family to yours ✨✨

12/21/2022

The UIC T35 Short-Term Research Training Program (STRTP) will support research training for medical students in National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) mission areas for eight weeks during the summer between years one and two of medical school.

Ten positions will be available for Summer 2023. During the 8 weeks of the program, students will be expected to work a full time schedule (40 hours a week) with the objective of completing and presenting a research project, developed alongside their mentor. STRTP trainees will also participate collectively in weekly activities which will include lectures, journal club, and work in progress sessions. Students will receive a summer stipend as dictated by the NIH of approximately $4,300.

Apply here: https://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/departments/academic-departments/medicine/nephrology/research/t35-short-term-research-training-program/

For additional information, students can reach out to Natalie Meza at nmeza1@uic.edu

12/12/2022

Congratulations Class of 2022! You did it! 🥳🥳 We are so incredibly proud of you and cannot wait to see how your journey continues. Wishing you well and a happy holidays!

11/11/2022

11/11/2022

Monday, Nov. 14 from 12 to 2 p.m. in SCW - Room 213 for the First Annual, Navie Heathcare Conference. We have limited in-person space, but the event is also open virtually.

10/19/2022

Pre-Health Professions Crash Course, which is scheduled for Saturday, November 19, 2022 in the main lecture hall of ICO’s campus. This is an all-day symposium offering our undergraduate student partners an intensive exploration into the health professions including public health, optometry, pharmacy, dentistry, and podiatry. Our end goal as a school of optometry is to increase diversity in the optometric practice pipeline and to encourage strong advocacy between future doctors and patients from at-risk populations.

Register here: https://web.cvent.com/event/6d5e5649-3f08-44a8-8a46-70a1bc2487cb/register

10/12/2022

UIC / UI Health is looking for a Director forOffice for Access and Equity for UI Health.

The job posting can be found here

Position SummaryUnder the direction of the Associate Chancellor, conduct investigations into allegations of unlawful discrimination and harassment ag...

10/04/2022

Thank you to everyone who attended

CHAMPIONS | UIC Urban Health Program coordinators attended the UI Health 2022 Bridging the Gap: Emerging Health Issues in Underrepresented Minorities Symposium.

07/25/2022

We are saddened to share with you the passing of Dr. Rose Green Thomas. Sending love to Dr. Thomas' friends and family

Dr. Thomas served the UIC Urban Health Program (UHP) for 25 years in various roles, including UHP Director and Director of Alumni Affairs. She retired from UHP in 2005. Dr. Thomas dedicated her professional career to educational issues such as recruitment, retention, student support systems & services, as well as minority affairs and minority health care policies and services delivery. She was instrumental in the success of UHP, and she will be missed.

06/16/2022

The Urban Health Early Outreach Program is accepting applications for summer 2022! Attached and also below is the flyer with scannable QR code to the application.

There is no cost for the summer program. There is a $200 application fee. Families who reside in The Auburn Gresham, Lawndale, and Greater Lawndale communities are eligible to receive an application fee waiver. Please contact us at uiceopprograms@uic.edu if you have any questions.

04/26/2022

Congratulations to all UIC students that presented at the Undergraduate Research Forum! 🎉🎉

UHP along with the Office of Undergraduate Research, the Honors College, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the University Library, and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science, sponsored this event that showcases undergraduate student research covering a broad range of scholarships.

04/13/2022

We are saddened to share the passing of Dr. Jobe Payne. We share our condolences to the family and friends.

Dr. Jobe Payne spent a total of fifty years at the University of Illinois systems. He first arrived as an undergraduate student majoring in biology in 1950. His journey into the University of Illinois systems was inspired by his participation in Boy’s Day summer program, held in Madison, Wisconsin. He earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and a PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, in 1963. He arrived at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago in 1963 as the first Black administrator in the college. Dr. Payne wore many hats during his tenure at the University of Illinois system - from his years as a student to being the first Black administrative staff, admission consultant in the college of Medicine, Research Assistant professor in Medical Education and culminating in becoming the first director of the newly created Urban Health Program, in 1978. He remained on board as the programs’ statistician, historian, and record keeper, until the year 2000.