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Spotlight: Samantha Snyder, PhD '25
Dr. Samantha Snyder, Ph.D. ’25, has always been interested in human movement. With a freshly minted doctorate in kinesiology from the School of Public Health, Snyder is wasting no time, already applying her diverse skills to make a difference for people with knee osteoarthritis, a common and painful...View Article Details for Spotlight: Samantha Snyder, PhD '25 -
More rural, minoritized people get amputations – AI gets closer to why
Why do rural adults and racial and ethnic minorities with vascular disease get major leg amputations more often? A new study out today in Epidemiology uses artificial intelligence (AI) to solve the mystery, finding an unaccounted-for factor that researchers think points to implicit bias in the clini...View Article Details for More rural, minoritized people get amputations – AI gets closer to why -
Pregnant People, Infants Prone to Wildfire Smoke Often Lack Health Care Access
The perinatal healthcare system in the United States is not prepared to treat patients impacted by wildfire smoke in a timely manner, according to a first study on the issue. Researcher Dr. Michel Boudreaux, associate professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Maryland and collea...View Article Details for Pregnant People, Infants Prone to Wildfire Smoke Often Lack Health Care Access -
Bird flu study points to risk of another pandemic
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — It’s spring, the birds are migrating and bird flu (H5N1) is rapidly evolving into the possibility of a human pandemic. On May 7, researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health published a major study in Open Forum Infectious Diseases documenting research on b...View Article Details for Bird flu study points to risk of another pandemic -
Study reveals racial and ethnic disparities in maternity care spending
COLLEGE PARK, MD – A new study out today in JAMA Health Forum is the first to show that Black, Hispanic and Asian people with private insurance tend to pay more out-of-pocket for maternity care than white people.View Article Details for Study reveals racial and ethnic disparities in maternity care spending -
Study examines effects of state funding for abortion care
A new study out today in Health Affairs shows that state-funded health insurance coverage of abortion is a crucial factor in access, particularly for Black and Hispanic people and people in low-income communities. With federal funding of abortion prohibited in the United States, some states fund cov...View Article Details for Study examines effects of state funding for abortion care