Public Health Research and Practice Day is an exciting opportunity to highlight public health research and practice activities through poster presentations and lightning round talks. University System of Maryland's undergraduate and graduate students can submit posters. UMD School of Public Health students are also invited to present lightning round talks in a 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) competition.
All University System of Maryland students, staff, faculty, and community partners are invited to attend.
Public Health Research and Practice Day Poster Winners
Inaugural Dushanka Kleinman Lightning Round Talk People’s Choice Award
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDEES
Talk Title: Promoting Resilience and Identity Development through Empowerment (PRIDE): Importance of Culturally Relevant Intervention
Submitting Authors: Lourdes Reyes Valenzuela, Family Science; J. Kani Milongo, Family Science
Advisor: Dr. Rabiatu Barrie
Talk Title: Examining Contributors to Maternal Health Disparities in Prince George’s County (Team Black Mamas Matter)
Submitting Author: Esohe Owie, Behavioral and Community Health
Advisor: Dr. Sylvette La Touche-Howard
Poster Session People’s Choice Award
GRADUATE AWARDEE
Poster Title: Comparing sexual messaging in adolescent media programming from two different cultures: A content analysis of 20 United States and South Korean Netflix series
Submitting Author: Angshuman Kashyap, Behavioral and Community Health
Advisor: Dr. Dina Borzekowski
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDEE
Poster Title: Understanding Osgood-Schlatter Disease in Adolescents
Submitting Author: Abigail Rudolph, Kinesiology
Advisors: Dr. Joanne Klossner; Dr. Larry Plotkin
Mitchell Stewart Research on Health Disparities Award
DOCTORAL AWARDEE
Poster Title: Exploring Access to Blood and Marrow Transplant: Relationships Between County-Level Social Vulnerability, Physician Density, and Transplant Unmet Need
Submitting Author: Samantha Watters, Behavioral and Community Health
Advisor: Dr. Dina Borzekowski
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDEE
Poster Title: Acculturation, Religiosity, and Mental Health Help-Seeking in Muslim American College Students
Submitting Author: Suad Esayed, Behavioral and Community Health
Advisor: Dr. Kerry Green
Gold Public Health Innovation Poster Award
DOCTORAL AWARDEE
Poster Title: Gender Differences in Cumulative Knee Loading during Walking and Runnin
Submitting Author: Samantha Snyder, Kinesiology
Advisors: Dr. Ross Miller, Dr. Jae Kun Shim
MASTERS AWARDEE
Poster Title: A Poster Presentation of the Manuscript Entitled Randomized Pilot of Rosie, a Health Education Question-and-Answer Chabot for New Mothers
Submitting Author: Shachar Gazit-Rosenthal, Behavioral and Community Health
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Aparicio
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDEE
Poster Title: Effectiveness of First Aid & Injury Prevention Response Workshops in Varanasi, India
Submitting Author: Lydia Walter, Family Science
Advisor: Dr. Elisabeth Maring
School of Public Health Judged Poster Award
DOCTORAL AWARDEE
Poster Title: Exposure to Wildfire-related Particulate Matter and Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality among Hemodialysis Patients
Submitting Author: Hyeonjin Song, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Advisors: Dr. Cher Dallal, Dr. Jaime Trevitt, Dr. Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein
MASTERS AWARDEE
Poster Title: E. coli bacteria concentrations in District of Columbia Waters: An examination of environmental water quality predictors in 2023
Submitting Author: Claire Barlow, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Advisors: Dr. Cher Dallal, Dr. Jaime Trevitt, Dr. Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDEE
Poster Title: Bridging Cultures, Building Health: Public Health Beyond Border Kenya team’s endeavors in Migori County to understand the issues of Gender-based violence and Female Genital Mutilation
Submitting Author: Haleemat Adenuga, Behavioral and Community Health
Advisor: Dr. Dina Borzekowski
Mentor: Angshuman Kashyap