Deliya Banda Wesley, PhD ’11, was appointed last month to the newly created position of senior director of health equity at Mathematica. The company works with healthcare stakeholders in the public and private sectors to adapt health information technologies to better address the needs of underserved communities. Dr. Wesley will lead the development of a robust health equity practice and a diverse portfolio of government and philanthropic clients.

Behavioral and Community Health Professor Cheryl Knott will bring her deep expertise developing behavioral intervention programs to prevent cancer to her new role as editor-in-chief of the journal Translational Behavioral Medicine.&nbsp

New parents may soon have a reliable and easy way to find information to guide them through the uncertainty of caring for a new baby—a chatbot named Rosie. 

Clark J. Lee '14, a current PhD candidate in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health (SPH), was appointed to a four-year term as vice-chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) on July 1, 2021. Clark has served as a member of the MDH IRB since 2007 and looks forward to using his graduate training at SPH to inform his continuing work on the IRB. 

Two years ago on National Coming Out Day, the UMD School of Public Health celebrated the launch of our Prevention Research Center’s new focus on supporting LGBTQ+ mental health, made possible with new support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

October is Health Literacy Month! Our Horowitz Center for Health Literacy is holding its fourth annual Health Literacy in Action conference October 14-15, 2021.