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Environmental Justice and Health Disparities Symposium, 8/11-13
Learn, network and prepare to take action on diverse environmental and climate justice topics at the eighth UMD EJ Symposium from August 11-13, 2022. View sessions virtually (8/11-12) and/or attend in person (8/13).
Photo: Professor Sacoby Wilson, director of the Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health group at the UMD SPH.

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Center for Health Literacy Becomes Maryland's Consumer Health Information Hub
A new Maryland law establishes the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy as the state’s Consumer Health Information Hub and will help state and local agencies provide the best and most useful health information using plain language standards.
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