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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.

Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility

Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA) Launches

School of Public Health faculty and staff are among the collaborators in the new initiative, which aims to change technology design research and practice so it involves disability communities as equal partners from the beginning of the design process, and accessibility is proactively built-in.
Jennifer Reed with Nazca booby in the Galápagos

SPH Facilities Manager Conquers the World and Herself One Destination at a Time

The pathway through separation and divorce is never an easy one and even more so in the middle of a pandemic. In 2020 that’s exactly what SPH’s Jennifer Reed was facing when she decided to plan a trip for herself. She would be celebrating her milestone 50th birthday in January of 2023, so she chose the destination of her dreams: the Galápagos Islands.

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