Funded by a $3 million Institutional Grant from the University of Maryland Grand Challenges Program, the international and interdisciplinary Global FEWture Alliance will focus on alleviating food, energy and water insecurity, protecting environmental and global public health and bolstering community resilience in a changing climate.

Faculty and staff work year-round to educate students and the community about the water and sanitation crisis and develop solutions using technology and community-based research. Here are some ongoing projects focused on water safety and security and an upcoming event that brings together global leaders from indigenous communities working on river protection.

The grant is part of the EPA’s Cumulative Health Impacts at the Intersection of Climate Change, Environmental Justice and Vulnerable Populations/Life Stages: Community-Based Research for Solutions funding opportunity.

Faculty from the School of Public Health will receive unprecedented funding to tackle some of society's biggest challenges, including a $3M grant to create an international alliance focused on alleviating food, energy and water insecurity, protecting environmental and global public health and bolstering community resilience in a changing climate.

A $2.2 million grant will help launch a University of Maryland-led initiative to address the effects of environmental racism and climate change across the Mid-Atlantic region, providing financial and training support and advocating for policy changes.

Professor Amy R. Sapkota will become the interim director of the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health on January 2, 2023, taking over the leadership role from Professor Stephen Roth who has served as interim director since 2015.

The American Public Health Association (APHA) presented Sacoby Wilson, professor of applied environmental health in the School of Public Health, with the David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health during its annual meeting today in Boston. The award, given to Wilson by APHA Executive Director Georges Benjamin, recognizes Wilson’s dedication to community-based environmental justice and science-based advocacy to influence policy change.

The University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower) has appointed Amy R. Sapkota, professor of environmental health science with the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, as an MPower Professor.

A $9.4 million gift to the University of Maryland will help fund a daring research initiative aimed at creating the next great public health revolution—innovative and affordable systems that provide clean, safe indoor air and prevent the spread of respiratory infections.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences recently awarded Devon Payne-Sturges a $3.7 million grant (R01) to study structural racism and health among Black and LatinX migrant and seasonal farmworkers. The grant will support her team’s efforts to better understand health disparities facing these essential but marginalized workers.