News from the School of Public Health

Watch Kiersten Janjigian discussing her basketball experiment on the School of Public Health's Instagram page.

Climate change is driving more extreme heat and more air pollution from wildfires, each of which put human health at risk.

A few weeks from a contentious election that is raising as many emotions as policy points, important issues affecting families are on state ballots across the country as well as in presidential candidates’ platforms.

Health care workers – including physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and dentists – make up about 14% of U.S. workers, about 22 million people, per the U.S. Census. Yet health care workers are 12-23% less likely to vote than the general population, according to research published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

It’s not just the first hint of fall foliage—the University of Maryland campus is glowing a definite red this week with crimson lights from Memorial Chapel to Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center.

Homecoming 2024 festivities kicked off Sunday night with SEE’s Homecoming Comedy Show, featuring Emmy award-winning comedian John Mulaney, and now, there’s tons of new ways to show off your Maryland pride leading up to the big game.

Among the fun and games at Boris' Block Party - the close to this year's School of Public Health Welcome Week - we caught up with some SPH undergraduates to hear why they chose to study public health and what they hope to do and be in the future! Many of our undergraduates are keenly aware of inequities within our public health systems and plan to use what they learn here at UMD to improve the lives of people in communities outside of their classrooms.