School of Public Health News
Bird flu outbreak in house cats: high-risk but survival possible
Bird flu hits cats particularly hard. Just last week an infected cat was euthanized in California after eating raw pet food. But a University of Maryland-led study out today in One Health shows promising results when an infected cat gets early care and treatment.
SPH project equips urban farms to safely harvest rainwater
In Maryland’s rich agricultural flatlands around Upper Marlboro, a group of scientists, contractors and farmers braved the heat on a June day at UMD’s Terp Farm at the Central Maryland Research & Education Center to gain hands-on skills around safe rainwater harvesting in urban agricultural sett...
UMD SPH announces its first-ever Clark Leadership Chair
The UMD School of Public Health has a new luminary on the horizon, with the appointment of the school’s first-ever Clark Leadership Chair in Global Health, Dr. Heather Wipfli.
Wipfli will bring deep expertise in global chronic disease control, particularly related to tobacco control, employing inte...
SPH Aerobiology Pioneer Awarded UMD Highest Honor
The University of Maryland has bestowed on Dr. Donald K. Milton the title and exceptional honor of Distinguished University Professor, a first in UMD School of Public Health history and one in only a handful of such titles given to tenured faculty across the university.
Bird flu study points to risk of another pandemic
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — It’s spring, the birds are migrating and bird flu (H5N1) is rapidly evolving into the possibility of a human pandemic. On May 7, researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health published a major study in Open Forum Infectious Diseases documenting research on b...
AquaSafe: ‘Doing Good’ in Tanzania
Against the steep blue backdrop of the Mbeya mountain range in Tanzania’s southern highlands, SPH doctoral student Ibiyinka Amokeodo listened to local farmers’ worries about the safety of the water they use on their crops and in their homes. Then she had a lightbulb moment.
Students grasp Tanzania's food-energy-water realities
In a small village in the lush blue-green hills of Tanzania’s southern highlands, farmers are sharing their biggest challenges with a group of graduate students from University of Maryland.
“Snails are a problem, destroying crops. We pick them off by hand. And there’s another small bug that eats t...
Spotlight: Mia Owens
Mia Owens’ younger brother, who was born premature, displayed symptoms of autism growing up. However, despite visiting multiple doctors, he wasn’t offered a diagnosis until his teenage years.
“It was pretty clear that he was autistic. That fight for just a simple diagnosis was my main introductio...
‘At the finish line’: SPH celebrates 2024 Winter graduates
This week, the School of Public Health celebrated its 2024 Winter graduates with students, faculty and staff joining together on Dec. 10 to commemorate the new graduates’ achievements and honor their milestone.
“Every time I talk with our SPH graduating students, I am so heartened by the intellec...
Welcome to the Hotel Influenza
THE STATELY 23-STORY HOTEL OPENED AT the height of the Jazz Age, but less than a year later, Wall Street’s 1929 crash snuffed out revelry in the opulent ballroom and secret speakeasy. That’s when the property, then one of Baltimore’s tallest buildings, supposedly began accumulating ghosts: failed bu...