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UIC Center for Healthy Work
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The Center for Healthy Work aims to contribute to changes in policies that promote healthier working conditions and provide fair employment and decent work.

📍UIC School of Public Health, Chicago, IL
⚙️ NIOSH Total Worker Health
💻 healthywork.uic.edu
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Excited to partner with National COSH this year to welcome COSHCON2025 to Chicago! We'll see you there: nationalcosh.org/COSHCON2025
Excited to partner with National COSH this year to welcome COSHCON2025 to Chicago! We'll see you there: nationalcosh.org/COSHCON2025
August 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Join Greater Lawndale Healthy Work (GLHW) Project at the Deeply Rooted Gathering on this Wednesday, August 27th from 12:30-2 PM at SPH Room 160. Lunch will be provided. ⬇️
August 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Happy start of fall semester at UIC! Wishing everyone an academic year filled with success and new opportunities.
August 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Learn about a new project related to extreme heat and pregnancy:

Extreme Weather Survivors (EWS) is a new non-profit organization amplifying the voices of people directly impacted by dangerous weather so they can support each other, educate others, influence policy,...
July 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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🚨 100 days until #COSHCON2025!
Oct 8–10 | Chicago
Workshops. Organizing. Worker power.
🔗 Register now: nationalcosh.org/COSHCON2025 #COSHCON2025
June 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
There is a new GLHW Project research brief up on our website! This cross-sectional survey using a community-based participatory approach examined the association between employment precarity and Greater Lawndale residents’ experiences with precariousness and material deprivation.
June 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🦺 “Most people have never heard of NIOSH — when public health is working well, it’s invisible. Occupational health is no different.”

In a new Letter to the Editor, the directors of UIC’s three NIOSH-funded centers discuss the dangers of gutting the National Institute for Occupational Safety and...
June 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
On Memorial Day 1937, peaceful protesters marched for steelworker rights outside of Republic Steel Plant on the Southeast side of Chicago. They were brutally attacked by police officers with weapons obtained by the plant's owners. 🧵

#OnThisDay #ChicagoHistory #WorkerHealth
May 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We commemorate Workers Memorial Day today, April 28th, the same day that the Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) Act went into effect in 1971, to grieve the countless individuals killed due to unsafe and abusive conditions at work.
April 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
THURSDAY 📣 Join Community Health Sciences' Scholarly Community Engagement for Health Justice Class for their Center for Healthy Work Data Dissemination event focused on precarious work.

More info + calendar invite: https://f.mtr.cool/yjcygfdkjo
April 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🎨 Join Chicago Jobs with Justice for their Art Build: Honoring Workers' Memorial Day & the May Day March!

When: 4/27 2-4 pm
Where: Chicago Women in Trades, 2444 W 16th St, 60608
Who: All ages and skill levels welcome – no experience necessary!

Register: https://f.mtr.cool/sdxipxxkow
April 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“Juego de lotería destaca los vínculos entre el trabajo y la salud en las comunidades locales" en UIC Today muestra la Lotería de Greater Lawndale e incluye entrevistas con Dolores Castañeda y Sylvia González del equipo del proyecto Greater Lawndale Healthy Work, y estudiantes...
April 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🔖NEW PUBLICATION from our Workforce Health and Well-being for All as a Sustainable Business Strategy project: “Workplace Culture of Health and Equitable Workforce Well-Being: A Scoping Literature Review” (American Journal of Health Promotion).
Read here: https://f.mtr.cool/hajndidvwe
#workerhealth
March 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in NYC became one of the deadliest industrial disasters in the U.S. after 146 garment workers, mostly young immigrant women, were killed. Public outrage galvanized the labor movement already in progress before the tragedy.🧵
March 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
[Español abajo] Come to a vaccine drive this Sunday from 9am-1pm at St. Agnes of Bohemia Church (2643 S. Central Park, Chicago, IL 60623). Call (773) 522-0142 to register. 

Get vaccinated for:
💉 Measles
💉 Covid-19
💉 Flu
💉 RSV

#Vaccines #FreeClinic #Chicago #LittleVillage
March 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
TOMORROW 📣 Join Theater of the Oppressed and UIC Community Health Sciences's Scholarly Community Engagement for Health Justice class for an arts-based dissemination focused on workers rights and informal, precarious work!
More info + calendar invite here: https://f.mtr.cool/zneopntnyc
March 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Several worker centers in Illinois are asking the public to submit witness slips for two pieces of state legislation that they say are critical for worker protection.

Committee meetings are scheduled for the proposed legislation as early as the afternoon of Wed., March 19th ⬇️
March 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
NEWS STORY: 
A construction worker was killed by electrical shock in North Lawndale Tuesday morning after the boom lift he was working on came into contact with a high-voltage power line. The 33-year-old was transported to Stroger Hospital and pronounced dead. ⬇️
February 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
💬 Text us! 📲 

We've added a brand new way to reach us via phone. If you need to get in touch with anyone at the Center for Healthy Work, you can leave us a text or voice message at (312) 355-6084.  

P.S. All other communication methods are still open and active!
February 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
UIC faculty alongside UICUF Local 6456 held a rally yesterday to bring awareness to the impacts of federal funding cuts and freezes to life-saving research, community partnerships, and faculty, staff, and student jobs.

WGN-TV full story: https://s.mtrbio.com/whbqtyuazv 
#LaborForHigherEd
February 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Last week, our three EOHS NIOSH-funded centers travelled to DC to meet with local Congress legislators’ offices and discuss continued support for occupational health and safety research. We also met with Total Worker Health® centers, Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health,...
February 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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February 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Join us virtually tomorrow 🌳

𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮: 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙡𝙮 𝙍𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙄𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙙𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙑𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙐𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨

Tuesday 2/11 at 11am CST
Register here: https://buff.ly/3WtHWS9
More info below ⬇️
February 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🫘 If you have not yet seen Greater Lawndale Lotería at the CDC Museum Digital Exhibit, today is the perfect day to do so!

➡️ View “Promoting Worker's Health: Greater Lawndale Lotería Game" at tinyurl.com/GLLatCDC
February 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
📻 You can now listen online to the worker health and safety episode of “¡Lucha Por Tus Derechos Chicago!,” a radio series about migrant rights and migrant struggles.

Tune into www.mixcloud.com/lumpenradio/playlists/lucha-por-tus-derechos/ to listen to the first two episodes of the radio series.
February 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM