UIC Center for Healthy Work

The CHW conducts transdisciplinary, participatory, applied, and racial justice-centered research to explore work as a social and structural determinant of health and identify actions to promote healthy work. It builds and strengthens multidirectional collaboration and engagement across eco-social levels to create networks that support healthy work. The center develops and expands the reach of policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change initiatives to build capacity to address precarious work across eco-social levels and geographical locations. It also translates and disseminates evidence to promote policies and practices that support healthy work and worker well-being for all workers. The CHW includes a Research Core, an Outreach Core, and a Planning and Evaluation Core.