Research

Research at the intersection of health, disability and rehabilitation

The UIC College of Applied Health Sciences has a track record of funding from a variety of federal and state agencies and foundations. Consistently ranked among the top 10 colleges of allied health in research funding, the college’s research emphasis is the intersection of health, disability and rehabilitation.

AHS researchers are awarded grants from a variety of federal and state agencies and foundations. Their research includes laboratory-based studies, community-based projects and scholarship in the humanities.

Fiscal year 2025 by the numbers

$ 613,532 in sponsored program expenditures per tenured-track faculty (FTE)
$ 24,737,591 total sponsored program expenditures

Research and scholarship playlist

Check out our research and scholarship YouTube video playlist to learn how we’re driving discovery at the intersection of health, disability and rehabilitation.

Grid

Yolanda Suarez-Blacazar outside in a Pilsen neighborhood

Policy

Evaluating the psychosocial and economic impacts of deportation and forced separation

Human factors

Applying human factors principles and approaches to improve patient safety and quality

Health disparities

Dismantling the policies and systems that lead to disparate health outcomes among racial and ethnic groups

Participation

Removing barriers to social participation among people with disabilities by empowering them with entrepreneurship training

Krista Varady weighing a woman on a scale

Obesity

Studying the effects of time-restricted feeding on body weight and cardiometabolic risk factors

Disability

Empowering cancer survivors to manage the long-term effects of their illness and treatment

Balance

Providing training to help prevent falls

Access

Helping people with intellectual disabilities build skills for a career, not a job, but a path for people to see their future

Two people taking care of a patient laying down

Recovery

Offering safe alternatives to medication and providing strategies that can help patients life a full life

What we're researching

See our list of research projects

Two men talk as they stand before a research poster

AHS Office of Research

From brainstorming ideas to preparing mountains of forms, the AHS Office of Research staff is dedicated to supporting our researchers. We let you focus on scientific development while we manage the review and submission of your proposals.

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