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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 2023 by the numbers Heading link

  • $ 427,973 in sponsored program expenditures per tenured-track faculty (FTE)

  • $ 17,183,131 total sponsored program expenditures

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Policy
Evaluating the psychosocial and economic impacts of deportation and forced separation
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Human factors
Applying human factors principles and approaches to improve patient safety and quality
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Health disparities
Dismantling the policies and systems that lead to disparate health outcomes among racial and ethnic groups
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Participation
Removing barriers to social participation among people with disabilities by empowering them with entrepreneurship training
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Obesity
Studying the effects of time-restricted feeding on body weight and cardiometabolic risk factors
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Disability
Empowering cancer survivors to manage the long-term effects of their illness and treatment
Tanvi Bhatt in her lab with a computer
Balance
Providing training to help prevent falls
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Access
Helping people with intellectual disabilities build skills for a career, not a job, but a path for people to see their future
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Recovery
Offering safe alternatives to medication and providing strategies that can help patients life a full life

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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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