News from the School of Public Health

A recent $200,000 grant from Cigna Foundation to the Maryland Center for Health Equity (M-CHE) in the University of Maryland (UMD) School of Public Health will expand the center’s efforts to save lives in Black and Latino communities using authentic conversations and lifestyle behavior change strategies focused on promoting health and preventing disease. 

Medicare recipients with mental health disorders are falling through the cracks. Though one in four Medicare beneficiaries, who are primarily adults over age 65, have been diagnosed with mental health or substance use disorders, Medicare coverage does not recognize licensed mental health counselors (LMHCs) or licensed marriage and family therapists (LMFTs) as approved providers. 

The University of Maryland School of Public Health is ranked No. 19 on the U.S. News & World Report 2023 list of Best Public Health Schools in the country released on March 29. 

This Women's History Month, we asked a few of our stellar women faculty members to talk about women in their professional and personal lives who have been inspiring to them, and to offer advice to women currently in the public health field.

Devon Payne-Sturges, an associate professor with the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, was recognized as having one of the top papers of 2021 by Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). 

With a new National Institutes of Health Career Development Award (K01), Dr. Rodman Turpin, assistant research professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, will work to optimize HIV prevention efforts among Black sexual minority men (BSMM).