Dr. Pauline Maki was featured in the New York Time article “How Menopause Changes the Brain.” Dr. Maki co-authored a study on menopause and dementia risk in older women. Read more on the…
Rob Mitchum, rmitchum@uic.edu|Posted on March 20, 2024
Until recently, families of infants diagnosed with Krabbe disease had few options. The neurological condition, also known as globoid cell leukodystrophy, usually strikes children in their first months of life, and is fatal…
The First Lady and Ms. Berry teamed up to come to UIC to bring continued visibility to the first-ever White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, and to showcase the work of Dr.…
Dear All, It is our great pleasure to announce that Dr. Qingfei Luo joined the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) and the Department of Radiology as Research Assistant Professor. Qingfei received his PhD degree in Medical Physics…
Katherine Craemer, MPH, presented our work developing the Maternal Health Emergency Department Toolkit as part of the panel “Emergency Obstetric Care Models/Solutions Panel” on August 2nd, 2023. The presentation discussed organizing over 30…
Dr. Hunter Holt, a current BIRCWH Scholar was featured in a December 2022 article for the New York Times entitled “Why Many Older Women Are Getting Pap Tests They Don’t Need.” Dr. Holt co-authored a…
Society for Women’s Health Research presented the Health Education Visionary Award to Dr. Pauline Maki on April 26, 2023. Dr. Maki serves as Senior Director of Research at the University of Illinois Chicago…
On April 17, 2023, the University of Illinois Center for Research of Women and Gender along with Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health program and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology hosted…
The Department of Medicine Inclusion Council honors and celebrates the accomplishments of Paula Allen-Meares, PhD. Dr. Allen-Meares may be best known for her tenure as Chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago from 2009 - 2015 where she served
Dr. Pauline Maki is featured in a New York Times article entitled “Women Have Been Misled About Menopause.” The article details current research on menopause. Dr Maki’s research on hot flashes and cognitive decline in…
The Center for Research on Women and Gender unequivocally denounces the Supreme Court’s decision as intentionally harmful and catastrophic to the health and wellbeing of millions of Americans.
Beginning in January 2023 our office is working with the IDPH Comprehensive Cancer Control on a project to train community health workers throughout the state of Illinois on the topics of health literacy…
The UIC Center for Global Health commemorated the milestone 10th Anniversary of starting the Global Medicine (GMED) Program by hosting a celebratory alumni event in September 2022! In conjunction with the event, we…
Now in its second year, the UIC College of Medicine announced a new program to recognize exceptional research being conducted by graduate students working toward their PhD or MD/PhD degrees. Please join us…
The University of Illinois Foundation has received donations to support the Center for Global Health “Friends of Global Health” Fund. This fund supports the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine, Center…
The Center for Global Health in the University of Illinois College of Medicine, with active ongoing collaborations with health partners in Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine, strongly condemns the war being waged by Russian…
Congratulations on the 2022 recipients of the Erickson Explorer Awards! The Erickson Explorer Award supports trainees doing elective rotations in low- and middle-income countries to support humanitarian medical care, advance global health research, or…
