Healthy Regions + Policies Lab
The Healthy Regions & Policies Lab (HEROP) is a lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign integrating innovative GIScience, public health, and statistical approaches to explore, understand, and promote healthy regions and policies. Learn more at https://www.healthyregions.org/.
Our research centers on how “place” impacts health in different ways, for different people, with a focus on vulnerability and exposure hypotheses. We focus on complexity surrounding the measurement, mapping, and distillation of multiple health outcomes and associated social determinants at varying scales.
Based at the University of Illinois, HEROP is dedicated to open science, open source methodology & applications. We are committed to research translation for policy & public use. We also provide research experiences in spatial and computational thinking for students, extending learning in the classroom to the complexity of raw research.
Technical Workshop: Intro To Spatial Data in R
Introducción a ChiVes: una exploración del entorno de Chicago
SDOH & Place 2025 Fellowship Application Information Session
Introduction to ChiVes: An Exploration of Chicago's Environment
Sharing Your Prototype | The SDOH & Place Community Toolkit
Coding Tutorial for App Development | The SDOH & Place Community Toolkit
Low Code Tutorial for App Development | The SDOH & Place Community Toolkit
App Development | The SDOH & Place Community Toolkit
Research Design & Analysis | The SDOH & Place Community Toolkit
Low Code Tutorial for Spatial Data Wrangling | The SDOH & Place Community Toolkit
Coding Tutorial for Spatial Data Wrangling | The SDOH & Place Community Toolkit
Spatial Data Wrangling | The SDOH & Place Community Toolkit
Human-Centered Design | The SDOH & Place Community Toolkit
Introduction & Project Planning | The SDOH & Place Community Toolkit
Covid-19 & Rural America: Assets + Challenges
Video Submission Tips: Atlas Stories
Custom Data Loading with the US Covid Atlas
Community Contexts with the US Covid Atlas
Spatial & Temporal Scales
Atlas Stories Overview
Getting Started with the US Covid Atlas
Identifying Trends Over Time: US Covid Atlas
Thematic Maps: US Covid Atlas
Sharing Data and Findings: US Covid Atlas
Hotspot Maps: US Covid Atlas
Calculating Advanced Spatial Access Metrics - Colab Notebook Tutorial
Developing Custom Spatial Access Metrics
Geocoding and Linking Community Data
Introduction to Spatial Analysis for Opioid Risk Environment