The University of Maryland School of Public Health Undergraduate Center for Academic Success and Achievement (CASA) enhances the academic experience for SPH students and assists them in achieving their academic, co-curricular and career goals.
In an editorial published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, Dr. Dylan Roby writes that the uneven state implementation of Medicaid expansion harms young adults, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prince George's County, one of the nation's wealthiest majority-black counties, has reported the most coronavirus infections and some of the highest death tolls in the Washington region, The Washington Post reported. The data shows that death transcends class— black Americans are more likely than white Americans to contract and die from COVID-19.
In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, the University of Maryland School of Public Health is compiling and sharing messages of solidarity, resources for learning more about the impacts of institutionalized racism and opportunities to take action to fight injustice, discrimination and systemic racism. The following list will be updated to include recommendations received by students, faculty and staff. To suggest a resource for inclusion, please email sph-comm@umd.edu.
Faculty members and graduate students in the Department of Family Science have created several resource guides for families and children in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. These guides aim to support parents who may be struggling with how to communicate to their children in an age-appropriate way about this unprecedented global pandemic.
On Tuesday, April 2, 2018, the seventh annual Public Health Research @ Maryland day was held at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union, and headlined with a keynote by US Surgeon General Jerome Adams.
The University of Maryland School of Public Health hosted its fifth Symposium on Environmental Justice and Health Disparities on May 11, bringing together policy makers, legal advocates, community organizers and researchers from more than 10 states to promote environmental health, elevate community voices and enact change.
After top HHS coronavirus vaccine doctor Rick Bright was fired by the Trump administration, Dean Boris Lusniak, former acting US surgeon general, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that public health experts in government walk a fine line.
When children are exposed to air pollution, it can harm not just their lungs but the development of their brains, too.
Exposure to air pollutants related to combustion, which come primarily from burning fossil fuels, is linked to autism, ADHD, memory deficits and lowered intelligence in children, among other outcomes.
Does the way you breathe influence how likely you are to spread flu or colds? You might be able to help researchers ferret out that answer—and many others about how respiratory illnesses spread—by wearing an activity tracker as you go about your day on campus.
For more than a year, the CATCH the Virus study has been tracking volunteers at the University of Maryland as they get sick, stay well or hover somewhere in between in an effort to figure out what makes us contagious.
