Health and Safety

The health and safety of our students, faculty, staff, and communities are our top priorities and will continue to guide our decisions over the upcoming months.

Chicago Booth continues to follow university and local public health guidelines and advice from the experts at UChicago Medicine on our campuses in Chicago, London, and Hong Kong in a thoughtful and deliberate way. Our experience has confirmed that our campus-wide preparation and the precautions outlined in the UChicago Health Pact are highly effective in limiting the spread of COVID-19. But we must continue to adhere to those requirements as long as the pandemic lasts.

During visits to Booth facilities, we ask all members of the Booth community to work together to help protect our community’s health and safety. This is particularly critical during the coldest winter months of the COVID-19 pandemic when more people will stay inside in spaces where the virus can spread if we do not follow strict precautions. We are asking every community member who comes to our campuses in Chicago, Hong Kong, and London to commit to the UChicago Health Pact to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Read Booth’s Health and Safety Report

The UChicago Health Pact

For the sake of myself and fellow community members, I agree to uphold the UChicago Health Pact. I will:

• Wear a face covering in university buildings or whenever other people are in the immediate area
• Maintain a distance of at least six feet from others whenever possible
• Wash my hands frequently or use hand sanitizer (for example, before eating, after using the restroom, after touching shared objects or surfaces, and before each class)
• Check my health symptoms daily, and stay home if I don’t feel well or am experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms
• Report promptly to C19HealthReport@uchicago.edu if I have knowingly been exposed to or test positive for COVID-19
• Raise any safety concern with my supervisor or academic leader, or through UCAIR
• Cooperate with public health workers and adhere to all quarantine requirements

By committing to the UChicago Health Pact, we all help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and contribute to a shared culture of public health at the University of Chicago.

For more information on measures the university is taking to help protect public health, please visit  goforward.uchicago.edu.