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UMD SPH announces its first-ever Clark Leadership Chair
The UMD School of Public Health has a new luminary on the horizon, with the appointment of the school’s first-ever Clark Leadership Chair in Global Health, Dr. Heather Wipfli. Wipfli will bring deep expertise in global chronic disease control, particularly related to tobacco control, employing inte...View Article Details for UMD SPH announces its first-ever Clark Leadership Chair -
Commencement speaker Crisdel Mayen Velasquez takes the stage
Growing up, first-generation UMD School of Public Health graduate Crisdel Mayen Velasquez witnessed her parents struggle to navigate the U.S. healthcare system. Like many children of immigrant parents, she helped translate their medical documents.View Article Details for Commencement speaker Crisdel Mayen Velasquez takes the stage -
SPH Aerobiology Pioneer Awarded UMD Highest Honor
The University of Maryland has bestowed on Dr. Donald K. Milton the title and exceptional honor of Distinguished University Professor, a first in UMD School of Public Health history and one in only a handful of such titles given to tenured faculty across the university.View Article Details for SPH Aerobiology Pioneer Awarded UMD Highest Honor -
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...View Article Details for Machine Learning for Public Health -
Bird flu study points to risk of another pandemic
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — It’s spring, the birds are migrating and bird flu (H5N1) is rapidly evolving into the possibility of a human pandemic. On May 7, researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health published a major study in Open Forum Infectious Diseases documenting research on b...View Article Details for Bird flu study points to risk of another pandemic -
Scholars convene for Global Health Systems Exchange
UMD School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management recently hosted the spring 2025 Universitas 21 International Health Research Exchange (U21HREx) Symposium, bringing together health scholars and practitioners from Ireland, Germany and the United States to address critical issu...View Article Details for Scholars convene for Global Health Systems Exchange