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Public health lessons from a Muppet
She's colorful, funny and furry and a pint-sized powerhouse for public health. Her name is Kami, and she's – in part – the product of SPH professor and health communications expert Dina Borzekowski, who told her story as part of UMD’s Henson Week.View Article Details for Public health lessons from a Muppet -
Students engaging across difference
The Bowie State University-University of Maryland Social Justice Alliance (SJA,) continues to work towards positive change, by making space for conversations about race and racism as part of an initiative founded after Bowie State student Lt. Richard Collins III was murdered by a UMD School of Publi...View Article Details for Students engaging across difference -
$2.5M NIH grant to measure effect of wildfire smoke and extreme heat on pregnancy
Wildfire smoke and extreme heat – increasingly the new norm – each have their own harmful effects on pregnant people and babies, including preterm birth and low birthweight. Now University of Maryland School of Public Health (UMD SPH) researchers will lead a $2.5 million grant from the National Inst...View Article Details for $2.5M NIH grant to measure effect of wildfire smoke and extreme heat on pregnancy -
Two SPH faculty win awards for excellence
Congratulations to two above-and-beyond SPH superstars: On Sept. 9, Melvin Seale and Joanne Klossner each won the Provost’s Excellence Award for Professional Track Faculty, presented at the 43rd Annual University of Maryland Faculty and Staff Convocation.View Article Details for Two SPH faculty win awards for excellence -
AI Tool Developed To ID Dementia Risk In Understudied Groups
In 2019 Miriam Owens was running a Richmond, Va., childcare center with plans to expand when she noticed something strange: She no longer could smell dirty diapers.View Article Details for AI Tool Developed To ID Dementia Risk In Understudied Groups -
OP/ED: How social media can be good for our health
In parents’ groups, at the water cooler, in the news—even on social media itself—American public discourse is awash in research-validated concerns about the harm social media can wreak on the nation’s psyche. The fear is especially acute concerning children’s mental health, and even the modern-day t...View Article Details for OP/ED: How social media can be good for our health