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What’s on your ballot? Voting guides to public health issues
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. To help with decision-making on key public health topics, doctoral students in Fami...View Article Details for What’s on your ballot? Voting guides to public health issues -
‘Health is always on the ballot’
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...View Article Details for ‘Health is always on the ballot’ -
Homecoming 2024 Preview: Red, Black and Gold (Medalists)
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-w...View Article Details for Homecoming 2024 Preview: Red, Black and Gold (Medalists) -
SPH undergraduates bring energy to health equity
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 inequi...View Article Details for SPH undergraduates bring energy to health equity -
Welcome to the Hotel Influenza
THE STATELY 23-STORY HOTEL OPENED AT the height of the Jazz Age, but less than a year later, Wall Street’s 1929 crash snuffed out revelry in the opulent ballroom and secret speakeasy. That’s when the property, then one of Baltimore’s tallest buildings, supposedly began accumulating ghosts: failed bu...View Article Details for Welcome to the Hotel Influenza -
Spotlight on Vonai Moyo '13
Vonai Moyo '13 knew her dual passions from the start— as a child she dreamed of becoming a pediatrician and since the first grade she devoted herself to gymnastics. At UMD’s School of Public Health (SPH) she nurtured these two loves and transformed them into two dynamic careers: working as a physic...View Article Details for Spotlight on Vonai Moyo '13