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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).

More than two years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, the coronavirus is still killing more than 1,000 Americans a day. And while the situation in the country has been improving, Americans must still navigate decisions about when and how to safely return to different activities and routines that were taken for granted in our pre-pandemic lives.