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  • Dr Huang Lin teaching machine learning in a classroom, two students listen

    Machine Learning for Public Health

    Dr. Huang (Frederick) Lin knows firsthand how artificial intelligence (AI) can support advances in public health: he uses AI daily in his own research analyzing the trillions of microbes living in our guts, looking for those that contribute to major diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, HIV/A...
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  • illustration of a brain in B&W with some parts dislodging and flying away

    Study Seeks to Better Understand Brain Aging of people with Severe Mental Illness

    Patients with severe mental illnesses (SMI), including schizophrenia spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, have a greater risk of Alzheimer’s dementia before age 70 due to accelerated brain aging. A University of Maryland Grand Challenges Grant supported research study ...
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  • blood being drawn from arm into kidney testing machine

    $1.8M Grant to Fund Public Health Researcher’s Study of Climate Change and Kidney Disease

    In a new study published in Environmental Research Letters, an international team of investigators led by Professor Amir Sapkota offered a way to predict the risk of deadly diarrhea outbreaks using AI modeling, giving public health systems weeks or even months to prepare and to save lives. “The ear...
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  • A bike is submerged in floodwater after a typhoon in the Old Town of Hoi An, Vietnam

    UMD researcher trains AI to predict diarrheal outbreaks related to climate change

    Climate change-related extreme weather, such as massive flooding and prolonged drought, often result in dangerous outbreaks of diarrheal diseases particularly in less developed countries, where diarrheal diseases is the third leading cause of death among young children. Now a study out Oct. 22, 2024...
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  • wildfire at night burns trees in a rural area

    SPH researcher awarded $1.8m to study climate change’s impact on people with kidney disease

    Climate change is driving more extreme heat and more air pollution from wildfires, each of which put human health at risk. Now, new research funded by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and led by University of Maryland School of Public Health Professor Dr. Amir Sapkota, w...
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  • Collage of grad students

    Incoming graduate students inspire

    2024 Fall semester is off to a great start with new graduate students gathering for orientation, connecting across diverse specialties and backgrounds, hearing from inspiring faculty, getting involved in a lively resource fair and, of course, enjoying ice cream! We took a minute to get to know a f...
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