News from the School of Public Health

Please join us in congratulating Mia Caminita for her selection as a 2021 Women in Sports Tech Fellow (WiST)! For her fellowship, Mia will work with the Stanford University Children's Hospital Motion Analysis and Sports Performance Lab. 

In March of 2020, many US states issued “stay at home” or “shelter in place” orders to protect public health and limit the spread of the coronavirus. At the height of these restrictions in late March and early April, these directives applied to the majority of Americans.

A new study from the UMD School of Public Health examines the experiences of sub-Saharan African children from Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Tanzania during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Washington, D.C., June 2, 2021 – President Biden today announced the formation of a White House-backed partnership between the University of Maryland’s Maryland Center for Health Equity, the Black Coalition Against COVID and the beauty and personal care brand SheaMoisture to recruit 1,000 Black-owned barb

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global public health crisis and poses unprecedented challenges to the national health and lives of our residents. The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics held a seminar series on the epidemiology of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, the state of Maryland and the world. The seminar series featured presentations delivered by frontline public health experts, community members and epidemiologists.

Dr. Sacoby Wilson, an associate professor with the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and the director of the Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health (CEEJH) laboratory at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, was appointed by Aclima to serve on its advisory board of leaders in climate action and environmental justice.