Under the direction of Frank Chaloupka, UIC will advance evidence-based policy on tobacco taxation worldwide in the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use.
In an Illinois PRC project, Dilip Pandey and colleagues in UIC Neurology are enrolling 100 patients with epilepsy to test a new patient education tool.
In a recent series of studies that examined how zoning regulations influenced physical activity in a community, Jamie Chriqui found the involvement of urban planning students critical to her research.
The Midwest Roybal Center has awarded pilot funding to two UIC doctoral candidates -- one from the College of Applied Health Sciences, the other from the College of Nursing -- for their dissertation research.
In a randomized trial of obese older adults, Marian Fitzgibbon and colleagues will look closely at the relationship between the Mediterranean diet and improved brain function, along with physical activity and weight loss.
