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Read more about DUSAC Members

The School of Public Health (SPH) Dean's Undergraduate Student Council, or DUSAC comprises student representatives from each SPH academic department, athletics, and Student Government Association (SGA). The expressed goal of the conglomerate is to facilitate trasnparency and communication between SPH students and administration to optimize the academic environment.

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Graduate Joanne Perodin speaking at the podium

September 25, 2024

Joanne Pérodin: From Haiti to the White House and beyond

As a kid, Joanne Pérodin ('05 BS, ’09 MPH) loved to take things apart and put them back together again, like her bicycle or keyboard, and thought she might become an engineer. By the time she began her studies in kinesiology in 2001 at UMD’s School of Public Health, she had already lived through the tumult of political violence in her home city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, along with the increasingly disastrous effects of extreme weather events on Haiti’s environment and population.

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September 20, 2024

Students connect at SPH Involvement Fair

On Thursday, student organizations, academic programs and other School of Public Health involvement groups gathered for the school’s annual SPH Involvement Fair, held in the School on its ground floor Concourse.

Book cover of "Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding"

September 18, 2024

‘Bound’ to Help Trans Teens

Twenty-two-year-old A hated that they’d had to start wearing a bra earlier than classmates and desperately wanted to be flat-chested. As a teen, while watching a show on weight loss, they saw a man wrap himself in plastic wrap to sweat off a few pounds—and thought, “What if I shrink-wrapped my chest?” The flaw in this plan quickly became apparent: They couldn’t breathe.

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Graduate Admissions Info Session - PhD Behavioral and Community Health

Interested in PhD in Behavioral and Community Health? Don't miss this opportunity to have your program-specific questions answered. Join the program Graduate Director, Dr. Katherine Sharp, to learn about department research, funding, program curriculum and more. Want to learn about the application...

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