Naomi Whitaker, Ph.D. ’27, founded the Association for Black Public Health Students at University of Maryland to create a hub and welcome space for Black student researchers.

The University of Maryland Alumni Association will honor Alumni Alyssa T. Krumlauf, Ph.D. '15, with the Spirit of Maryland Award and Veeraj Shah '21 with the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award during its annual "A Celebration of Terps: Featuring The Maryland Awards" event on November 10, 2023 in the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center.

Professor Cheryl Knott and University of Connecticut Associate Professor Debarchana Ghosh will develop a measure of county-level structural racism and discrimination as part of a five-year study that aims to fill a gap in preventive cancer-related research in historically underserved communities. 

Award funding will support environmental health Assistant Professor Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein's research on the presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in sewage. 

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.