Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts, Assistant Professor in Kinesiology, has dedicated her research to the built environment and its impact on physical activity. In her recent publication in Medium, titled "Central Park: Black Bodies Green Spaces, White Minds," Dr. Roberts provides insight on "the historical and contemporary use of white privilege for the exclusion of black bodies from green spaces in the United States."

In a Voice of America town hall, Dean Boris Lushniak joined a panel of three other experts from around the globe to answer questions about the COVID-19 pandemic.

A growing number of studies have found evidence that the coronavirus can remain suspended in the air in aerosol particles. But, Don Milton told the Washington Post that there is widespread confusion surrounding respiratory droplets and aerosol particles.

There's not a bright line between the two, he says.  

Prince George's County, one of the nation's wealthiest majority-black counties, has reported the most coronavirus infections and some of the highest death tolls in the Washington region, The Washington Post reported. The data shows that death transcends class— black Americans are more likely than white Americans to contract and die from COVID-19. 

Cloth masks can help protect you against COVID-19, the American Chemical Society explained in Reactions, its science video series. 

Don Milton, professor of environmental health and guest on the video, told ACS that the idea of the virus being transmitted droplet versus airborne is an artificial paradigm. 

“There’s a gradient,” Milton said. “It’s not that there’s aerosols and droplets and they’re two different things. There’s droplets and then there’s smaller droplets.”

Don Milton, professor of environmental health, and Jessica Fish, assistant professor of family science, each received seed grants from the UMD Division of Research for COVID-19-related research.

School of Public Health Dean Boris Lushniak, a former Deputy US Surgeon General, spoke with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on March 24, 2020 about the global COVID-19 pandemic and the confusion created by President Donald Trump's communication.

Donald Milton, an infectious disease aerobiologist at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, says that World Health Organization information about the spread of COVID-19 was given to the public prematurely.

It’s possible the coronavirus can be spread by aerosol transmission, environmental health professor Donald Milton told The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) in a recent article. 

When the U.S. Surgeon General, Luther Terry, announced that smoking was bad for our health on January 11, 1964, it was a big deal.

In an episode of the History this Week podcast, University of Maryland School of Public Health Dean and Professor Boris Lushniak sheds light on the historical, economic and social context behind the announcement and it’s ramifications.