The Office of Public Health Practice & Community Engagement has developed a strong partnership with the enBloom Collective. This partnership began with a common interest in being involved in the transformation of the Crownsville Hospital in Anne Arundel County, MD, and has grown to be a partnership for offering students, faculty, and staff practice opportunities around equitable, holistic health and wellness for Marylanders.

The UMD School of Public Health has had a long-standing partnership with the health curriculum team in the Calvert County Public Schools System. Teams of SPH students have prepared health curricula and activities for middle and high school students. In the Spring of 2023, the Office of Public Health Practice & Community Engagement partnered again with the health curriculum team to assist in developing the classroom activities and materials for the Health 2 high school curriculum to be implemented in the Fall of 2023.

The Office of Public Health Practice and Community Engagement is home to the Terrapin Think Tank - a student-led policy incubator that empowers undergraduate students to engage with the needs of their local community through health policy research, advocacy, and implementation. Learn more about the Terrapin Think Tank below.

In early 2023, the Berwyn Heights Town Council asked the University of Maryland School of Public Health Office of Public Health Practice & Community Engagement to lead a community needs assessment to define this new sense of community. Central to our Office's approach is sharing power and thus a community-driven approach to tackling the community’s grand challenges was created.