School of Public Health News
Op/ed: Make All Overdose Reversal Agents Available in Maryland
Black barbershops and beauty salons often serve as virtual community centers, improving not only the hairstyles but the well-being of their clients by hosting vaccine clinics health outreach activities, according to Professor Stephen B. Thomas, founding director of the University of Maryland’s Cente...
Building community health research starts with trust, partnership
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The best way to improve health in underserved communities is to create solutions with them, not conduct research on them. That’s a silver lining lesson Dr. Stephen B. Thomas implements daily in his work as director of the Maryland Center for Health Equity and professor at the Uni...
10 Top SPH Stories of 2023
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.
Student Spotlight: Taehyun Kim, Ph.D. ’24
Kim shares why she decided to study health policy and management, how she overcame stigma around abortion research and how her research on contraception and abortion access could impact state and national health policies.
Alumni Spotlight: Chawin Reilly '23, Master of Health Care Management
Chawin Reilly is a health policy analyst with the Maryland Department of Health. He works in the department’s Medicaid Provider Enrollment division, where he helps healthcare providers who serve the state’s Medicaid patients navigate the enrollment process. His team works directly with 110,000 provi...
$3.2M Grant Funds Study of How Health Technology Could Boost Alzheimer’s, Dementia Care
Professor Jie Chen and her research team will analyze Medicare claims data to investigate if health information technology reduces unnecessary emergency department visits, hospitalizations and hospital readmissions for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD)—conditions that co...
SPH Names Inaugural Recipients of Seed Grant Competition
Totalling $75,000, the funding program is designed to support collaborative, multidisciplinary public health research that enriches lives. Research topics includes racism, mental health and mucosal immunity.
NIH-Funded Study Probes Effect of Drinking on Older Adults' Cardiac Function
Two troubling trends are converging for older adults—heavier drinking and rising rates of heart failure. Assistant Professor Aryn Phillips and a team of researchers will explore whether they are linked.
Student Spotlight: Senam Attipoe ’23, MPH ’24
Attipoe shares thoughts on her recent “Law, Public Health and the Cuban Family” summer program, which included visits to health clinics and hospitals, the pharmaceutical factory where Cuba invented its COVID-19 vaccine, a fertility clinic and a Cuban medical school.
Jie Chen Named Chair of Department of Health Policy and Management
A faculty member since 2012, Dr. Chen will provide academic and strategic leadership and advance the teaching, research, service and outreach missions of the department and School of Public Health.