This Women's History Month, we asked a few of our stellar women faculty members to talk about women in their professional and personal lives who have been inspiring to them, and to offer advice to women currently in the public health field.

Devon Payne-Sturges, an associate professor with the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, was recognized as having one of the top papers of 2021 by Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). 

With a new National Institutes of Health Career Development Award (K01), Dr. Rodman Turpin, assistant research professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, will work to optimize HIV prevention efforts among Black sexual minority men (BSMM).

More than two years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, the coronavirus is still killing more than 1,000 Americans a day. And while the situation in the country has been improving, Americans must still navigate decisions about when and how to safely return to different activities and routines that were taken for granted in our pre-pandemic lives. 

As a professor of family science at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, Dr. Smith-Bynum has spent her career studying African American mental health, family interaction and communication in ethnic minority families, parenting and racial identity.

Caitlin Waite, who is a program administrative specialist in the SPH Dean’s Office, recently moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She and her fiancée Corbin, who has lived in the area his whole life, had the opportunity to explore a piece of little-known American history of African Americans at Blue Mountain.