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Quick Facts

 

Year Founded 1997 (as the Health Research and Policy Centers)
Director Susan J. Curry, PhD
Affiliated Centers and Programs Center for Health Behavior Research
Center for Health Services Research
Center for Pharmacoeconomic Research
Center for Research on Health and Aging
Health Policy Center
Health Promotion Research Program
Program for Cancer Control and Population Science
Research Funding (FY2007) $16.4 million
Total Funding Awarded Since 1997 $134 million
No. of Research Projects (FY2007) 65
UIC Schools
and Colleges Whose Faculty Collaborate
at IHRP
Applied Health Sciences
Business Administration
Dentistry
Education
Liberal Arts and Sciences
Medicine
Nursing
Pharmacy
Public Health
Social Work
Urban Planning and Public Affairs
UIC Departments Whose Faculty Collaborate
at IHRP
Biomedical and Health Information Sciences; Community Health Sciences; Criminal Justice; Curriculum and Instruction; Disability and Human Development; Economics; Emergency Medicine; Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences; Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Family Medicine; General and Emergency Pediatrics; General Internal Medicine; Geriatric Medicine; Health Policy and Administration; Health Promotion and Research; Hepatology; Human Nutrition; Information and Decision Sciences; Maternal Child Nursing; Medical-Surgical Nursing; Medicine (Sections of Cardiology; Diabetes and Metabolism; Digestive Diseases and Nutrition; Endocrinology; Health Promotion Research; Hepatology; Nephrology; Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; Rheumatology); Movement Sciences; Occupational Therapy; Ophthalmology and Visual Science; Oral Biology; Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences; Pediatric Dentistry; Periodontics; Pharmacy Practice; Physical Therapy; Psychiatry; Psychology; Public Administration; Public Health, Mental Health, and Administrative Nursing; Sociology; Surgical Pathology; Urology
No. of Collaborating Faculty (FY2007) 91
Research Project Staff in FY2007

No. of professional research staff members: 119

Graduate research assistants: 74

Undergraduates and other graduate students: 79

No. of Fellows Funded by National Institutes of Health Training Grants 13
No. of Community
and Public Institutions That Partnered with IHRP (FY2007)
239
No. of Chicago Area Schools Where IHRP Recruited or Conducted Research
(FY2006)
32