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Welcome to the Urban Health Program

    Director: Rachel T. Kimbro                 Associate Director: Justin T. Denney 
Assistant Professor of Sociology              Assistant Professor of Sociology 


Our program is dedicated to fostering community and academic partnerships surrounding issues of health, health care, education, and community planning by highlighting how urban areas can create barriers as well as opportunities for the health of their citizens.

UHP will accomplish its mission by:

  • Connecting scholars conducting health research and community health organizations in Houston
  • Facilitating interdisciplinary health research 
  • Convening on-campus dialogues on issues relevant to urban health

The Urban Health Program is a campus-wide program of Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research. 

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If you are interested in receiving updates from the Urban Health Program, please click here or email urbanhealth@rice.edu.

The Urban Sandbox

The Urban Sandbox is a blog run by the Kinder Institute which serves an open forum for the discussion of pressing urban issues around the world. Check out the contributions UHP has made to the dialogue


Texas Ranks

See how Texas holds up to other states in key urban indicators in poverty and health!

 


Created by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and borrowed from the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin, Texas.