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.
A faculty member since 2012, Dr. Chen will provide academic and strategic leadership and advance the teaching, research, service and outreach missions of the department and School of Public Health.
School of Public Health faculty and staff are among the collaborators in the new initiative, which aims to change technology design research and practice so it involves disability communities as equal partners from the beginning of the design process, and accessibility is proactively built-in.
Nearly 40 scholars and fellows spend the summer focusing on environmental and climate justice, gaining research skills and developing mentor-mentee relationships.
As ambassadors, the UMD School of Public Health students and 80 others from around the world will exemplify ASPPH’s core mission of improved health and well-being for everyone, everywhere.
