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Medicines to prevent HIV infection, called “pre-exposure prophylaxis” (or PrEP), are known to dramatically reduce a person’s risk of getting HIV from sex and IV drug use, cutting the risk by 99 percent and 74 percent, respectively.

State, local and university leaders recently gathered to mark the 20th anniversary of the Legacy Leadership Institute for Public Policy (LLIPP), a University of Maryland School of Public Health program that trains and places retirees into the offices of Maryland’s elected officials and non-profit agencies.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a $1.06 million, multi-year contract to ProChange, a leader in behavior change science, and the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity to help prevent onset of type 2 diabetes in African American adults through programs delivered in barbershops, salons and interactive text messaging. 

Joan Selma Hult, PhD, a professor emerita in the Department of Kinesiology who was one of the one of the foremost sport historians on American women in athletics, died Aug 15, 2022 at the University of Maryland Laurel Medical Center. 

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences recently awarded Devon Payne-Sturges a $3.7 million grant (R01) to study structural racism and health among Black and LatinX migrant and seasonal farmworkers. The grant will support her team’s efforts to better understand health disparities facing these essential but marginalized workers.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) recently named Allison Hanley, Ph.D. ’21, as an officer in its class of 2022. Dr. Hanley, who earned her Ph.D. in epidemiology, is assigned to a two-year fellowship with the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities' Division of Human Development and Disability.