Growing up, Zach Mixer loved fitness – playing sports from soccer to martial arts and spending time weight training. Just as enthusiastic about sports and fitness now, Mixer has won the School of Public Health’s 2025 Whitl
The perinatal healthcare system in the United States is not prepared to treat patients impacted by wildfire smoke in a timely manner, according to a first study on the issue.
The UMD School of Public Health has a new luminary on the horizon, with the appointment of the school’s first-ever Clark Leadership Chair in Global Health, Dr. Heather Wipfli.
Growing up, first-generation UMD School of Public Health graduate Crisdel Mayen Velasquez witnessed her parents struggle to navigate the U.S. healthcare system. Like many children of immigrant parents, she helped translate their medical documents.
Dr. Huang (Frederick) Lin knows firsthand how artificial intelligence (AI) can support advances in public health: he uses AI daily in his own research analyzing the trillions of microbes living in our guts, looking for those that contribute to major diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, HIV/AIDS, and various cancers.
