The Mickey Dale Family Foundation has donated $60,000 to the School of Public Health to establish a graduate fellowship that supports students working to understand and subsequently transform attitudes and practices around organ, tissue and cell transplantation in the United States.
The University of Maryland Baltimore Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (UMB ICTR) has named Assistant Professor Kristen Coleman as its new KL2 Clinical Research Scholar - a three-year appointment that includes multi-disciplinary mentored career development, formal coursework and professional development opportunities.
Co-sponsored by the School of Public Health, the week-long camp teachers middle school students how to collect and analyze statistical data and then display what they discovered in creative ways.
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 cost an estimated $321 billion in the U.S. last year.
Fate intervened in Jameson Roth's life when she stumbled upon a family science class at the School of Public Health. Get to know how Roth, president of the SPH Alumni Network, began her public health journey and the advice she has for public health students.
A faculty member since 2010, Dr. Smith-Bynum will provide academic and strategic leadership and advance the teaching, research, service and outreach missions of the department and School of Public Health.
Cipriani will oversee and direct the Public Health Science major, University of Maryland’s fourth largest undergraduate major, while Hodgson will oversee and direct the Public Health Science program at the Universities at Shady Grove.
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.
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.
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.
