The School of Public Health continued to move fearlessly forward this year, tackling pressing issues at the local, national and global level, while educating the next generation of public health practitioners. Here's a look back at some of the school’s achievements in 2023.

Dean Lushniak recently traveled to Kyiv, Ukraine to participate in an international health care summit. Along with the summit, he discussed the mood in the country’s capital and the three things he heard most from residents.

In a new essay in The Baltimore Sun, University of Maryland family science Professor Kevin Roy writes men who are feeling societal stresses need to examine more broadly what it means to be a man—and one place to start could be a popular series that recently concluded on Apple TV+.

As universities across the country look for ways to support students' mental health, Inside Higher Ed turned to Amy Morgan, assistant professor in the Department of Family Science, to learn more about her new one-credit class that teaches students basic emotional regulation skills.

With the winter “tripledemic” of respiratory viruses threatening our health and upcoming holiday gatherings, NBC News turned to Dr. Don Milton, professor of environmental health, and other health experts to understand how long people remain infectious and if an antiviral medicine like Paxlovid impacts that time frame.

Dr. Mona Mittal, associate professor of Family Science at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, was recently invited to discuss trauma in higher education classrooms on the podcast TraumaTies: Untangling Societal Harm and Healing After Crime produced by the Network for Victim Recovery of DC.

Dr. Mia Smith-Bynum, professor of Family Science at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, participated in a Q&A with WalletHub where she discussed key factors to improve racial equality in political and social opportunities.

First responders - including police officers and 911 operators - suffer from high rates of mental health issues and suicide across the country, but few departments have internal programs to nurture their workplace mental health.

Elizabeth Aparicio, assistant professor of behavioral and community health in the University of Maryland School of Public Health, received the 2022 ECPN John B.

Dylan Roby, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Maryland School of Public Health and Alex Ortega, from the Department of Health Management and Policy at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, co-authored the editorial “Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities,” published in the