News from the School of Public Health

New research from the University of Maryland School of Public Health estimates that Hurricane Maria led to 1,205 "excess deaths" in Puerto Rico in September and October 2017.

The University of Maryland School of Public Health hosted a teach-in and national research summit focused on strategies to eliminate gun violence as a leading cause of injury and death, from April 24-26. The events were led by Professor of the Practice Woodie Kessel and Dean Boris Lushniak with input from SPH faculty and staff and a national steering committee.

The University of Maryland School of Public Health awarded its highest honor, the Distinguished Terrapin Award, to four outstanding members of the SPH community on April 12, 2019. Each honoree was selected for their outstanding professional achievements and their unique relationship to the School of Public Health.

How quickly do we experience the benefits of exercise? A new study of healthy older adults shows that just one session of exercise increased activation in the brain circuits associated with memory – including the hippocampus – which shrinks with age and is the brain region attacked first in Alzheimer's disease.

On Tuesday, April 2, 2018, the seventh annual Public Health Research @ Maryland day was held at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union, and headlined with a keynote by US Surgeon General Jerome Adams.

An online platform to support LGBTQ youth and a chatbot app addressing vaccine misinformation both won yesterday’s 2019 (second annual) Gold Public Health Innovation Award competition hosted by the School of Public Health.

The teams behind Q Chat Space and ChatHealth each took home half of the $5,000 in prize money at the event, established with a gift from SPH founding Dean Robert Gold and his wife, Barbara, to spark public health innovation, design thinking and solutions to the world’s most complex public health issues.