“It’s one thing to be sick,” David Meltzer, MD, PhD, director of the University of Chicago’s Health Lab, once said. “It’s a much more difficult thing to be sick and poor and in a neighborhood that’s so unsafe that people won’t come to help you.”

Therein lies the heart of the Health Lab, an incubator to improve outcomes and increase access to care for disadvantaged urban populations. Part of the UChicago Urban Lab — which also houses labs specializing in crime, energy and environment, education and poverty — Health Lab’s researchers test and scale promising, cost-effective solutions for society’s most pressing health issues.

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