Professor Amir Sapkota's new preparedness framework includes a timeline and steps to keep chronic kidney disease patients safe before a natural disaster strikes.
Opening February 11 in honor of American Heart Month, the “Heart Discovery Trail" is an existing one-mile loop through Howard County's Middle Patuxent Environmental Area that includes educational signs bearing heart facts and quizzes.
The Graduate School recently named three School of Public Health doctoral students as recipients of the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award: Amara Channell Doig, MPH, Ph.D. ’23; Elsie Essien, MPH, Ph.D. ’24; and Hongjie Ke, Ph.D. ’24. The award recognizes the outstanding contributions graduate assistants provide to students, faculty and the university as a whole.
Now more than ever, the University of Maryland and the School of Public Health are encouraging students, faculty and staff members to care for their whole selves through a series of programs, resources and a new campus-wide mental health task force.
A chance encounter with living history in Montgomery, Alabama moves Jennifer D. Roberts, associate professor in kinesiology, to connect with a stranger and “walk the walk and not just talk the talk” of shared humanity and justice.
The four-year study will combine national data from sources like the U.S. Census with feedback received during individual and group interviews with African American communities, which face greater obstacles to cancer prevention, detection, treatment and survival.
