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October 07, 2022

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. Dr. Hult came to the University of Maryland in 1967 to join the ...

August 02, 2022

Boris D. Lushniak, dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Health, has been appointed to serve on the Board of Directors for the National Fitness Foundation by Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services. The National Fitness Foundation (NFF) is the only congressionally charte...

July 08, 2022

Alice Horowitz, who retires from the University of Maryland this summer at age 89, has been a leading advocate and researcher in dental public health and in health literacy efforts. One of her crowning achievements was establishing SPH’s Herschel S. Horowitz Center for Health Literacy (HCHL), named ...

June 28, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts have taken a disproportionate toll on American mothers who were pregnant or just gave birth. Maternal mortality (i.e., deaths during pregnancy or in the early postpartum period) increased by 18% in 2020, according to data from the National Center for Health Stat...

June 24, 2022

Beginning July 1, Dr. Tracy Zeeger will serve as Assistant Dean for Public Health Practice and Dr. Sylvette La Touche-Howard will serve as Assistant Dean for Community Engagement for the new Office of Public Health Practice and Community Engagement. With Dr. Zeeger and Dr. La Touche-Howard’s leaders...

June 16, 2022

A new law passed by the Maryland General Assembly establishes the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy, part of the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health, as the state’s Consumer Health Information Hub–the first such designation in the country. “This new law really allows the center to be...