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...
Returning to Workouts? Before Popping in Your AirPods, Take a Beat.
After a dreary winter—and brutal flu and cold season—most of us are welcoming a new kind of affliction: spring fever. Coma-like weeks on the couch, whether brought on by a super virus or the new season of “Vanderpump Rules,” may have you itching to resuscitate your fitness routine—or reluctant to em...
How to Give Away 100,000 Pounds of Food in Four Hours
A surplus of millions of apples going to waste last fall was more than enough to make mid-Atlantic farmers’ stomachs sink.
But for Megan Joe ’19, it was an opportunity to fill stomachs.
Over the next two months, the executive director of hunger relief at So What Else, a food bank based in Bethesda...
The Science of Perseverance
It’s hard to imagine the world of science without trailblazing environmental microbiologist Rita Colwell. An expert in global infectious disease and the first female director of the National Science Foundation, Colwell has conducted seminal research on cholera that transformed our understanding of h...
On Nepal Research Trip, Graduate Students Strive for Solutions for Food, Energy, Water
Even on the roof of the world, climate change is melting the snow. The loss of a third of the ice of Himalayan mountains in the past 30 years has translated into water and food shortages and variable water quality in the villages below.
A University of Maryland team traveled there this month to see...
Student Spotlight: Luke T. Kues ’24
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.
Safeguarding Every Drop: UMD Research Aims to Catalog Drinking Water Contaminants Statewide
The Maryland Safe Drinking Water Analysis and Testing for Education and Research (WATER) study examines the quality of public drinking water systems and private wells in Maryland through citizen science, field-based research and laboratory analyses.
Feeling Stressed This Season? Family Science Expert Shares How Stress Impacts Health, Ways to Cope
Dr. Mona Mittal, associate professor in the Department of Family Science and supervisor at the Center for Healthy Families, explains how stress affects us in different ways, why so many people seem to be stressed out year-round and how we can find relief.
