UIC Urban Health Program

We are saddened to share with you the passing of Dr. Rose Green Thomas. Sending love to Dr. Thomas' friends and family

Dr. Thomas served the UIC Urban Health Program (UHP) for 25 years in various roles, including UHP Director and Director of Alumni Affairs. She retired from UHP in 2005. Dr. Thomas dedicated her professional career to educational issues such as recruitment, retention, student support systems & services, as well as minority affairs and minority health care policies and services delivery. She was instrumental in the success of UHP, and she will be missed.

The Urban Health Early Outreach Program is accepting applications for summer 2022! Attached and also below is the flyer with scannable QR code to the application.

There is no cost for the summer program. There is a $200 application fee. Families who reside in The Auburn Gresham, Lawndale, and Greater Lawndale communities are eligible to receive an application fee waiver. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Congratulations to all UIC students that presented at the Undergraduate Research Forum! 🎉🎉

UHP along with the Office of Undergraduate Research, the Honors College, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the University Library, and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science, sponsored this event that showcases undergraduate student research covering a broad range of scholarships.

We are saddened to share the passing of Dr. Jobe Payne. We share our condolences to the family and friends.

Dr. Jobe Payne spent a total of fifty years at the University of Illinois systems. He first arrived as an undergraduate student majoring in biology in 1950. His journey into the University of Illinois systems was inspired by his participation in Boy’s Day summer program, held in Madison, Wisconsin. He earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and a PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, in 1963. He arrived at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago in 1963 as the first Black administrator in the college. Dr. Payne wore many hats during his tenure at the University of Illinois system - from his years as a student to being the first Black administrative staff, admission consultant in the college of Medicine, Research Assistant professor in Medical Education and culminating in becoming the first director of the newly created Urban Health Program, in 1978. He remained on board as the programs’ statistician, historian, and record keeper, until the year 2000.