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June 16, 2025

Recent SPH graduate Matthew Ryan Alvarez wants to improve men's mental health and help couples through therapy. As of May 2025, he’s got a masters in marriage and family therapy from UMD’s School of Public Health to help him reach his goals.

June 09, 2025

Since transferring from Harford Community College to the UMD School of Public Health, Lahna Hall, who graduated this Spring in public health practice, has always been passionate about the health of her community. Hall’s decision to pursue a career in public health was driven largely by her involvem...

June 04, 2025

Growing up, Zach Mixer loved fitness – playing sports from soccer to martial arts and spending time weight training. Just as enthusiastic about sports and fitness now, Mixer has won the School of Public Health’s 2025 Whitlark Scholarship that supports kinesiology students transferring from a Marylan...

May 19, 2025

Growing up, first-generation UMD School of Public Health graduate Crisdel Mayen Velasquez witnessed her parents struggle to navigate the U.S. healthcare system. Like many children of immigrant parents, she helped translate their medical documents.

May 12, 2025

Dr. Huang (Frederick) Lin knows firsthand how artificial intelligence (AI) can support advances in public health: he uses AI daily in his own research analyzing the trillions of microbes living in our guts, looking for those that contribute to major diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, HIV/A...

April 23, 2025

University of Maryland doctoral student Kenan Zamore ‘26, has won a grant from the American Public Health Association’s Injury and Violence Prevention Data Science Demonstration Project to use AI to rapidly identify overdose deaths. Opioids remain the most lethal drug in America, and yet a lag in to...