School of Public Health News
UMD Joins CommuniVax Rapid Research Coalition to Engage Communities in an Equitable COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign
The University of Maryland School of Public Health has joined CommuniVax, a new research coalition funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to strengthen the community’s role and involvement in an equitable vaccination campaign.
The CommuniVax coalition is led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Healt...
TOGETHER Program Receives $5M To Continue Relationship and Financial Counseling for Local Couples
The TOGETHER Program, which offers services that help local families develop healthy relationships and achieve financial stability, will continue its work for another five years with a $5 million grant renewal from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a division of the U.S. Department...
Report: Pandemic Exposes Educational Equity Challenges
Children and families across Maryland and throughout the United States are grappling with the challenges and necessity of virtual learning required by the Covid-19 pandemic. But Black, Latino, and low-income children face starker difficulties and may be at risk of falling behind or disengaging from ...
Keeping It Together: Free Program Gives Couples a Boost in Love and Money Management
Financial stresses can squash a relationship as thoroughly as stomping on a Valentine’s box of chocolate—and Emily Garcia’s* metaphorical box was looking more than a little crumpled.
Garcia and her husband, who works in finance and handled the money in their marriage, had begun to argue when finan...
Abortion Does Not Increase Suicide Risk
Policies based on the notion that undergoing an abortion causes or increases women’s risk of attempting suicide are misinformed, according to the results of a 17-year study led by a School of Public Health researcher.
The research, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, is the first to compare the ris...
Inoculating Against the Spread of Viral Misinformation
In a year that has seen the largest measles outbreak in the US in more than two decades, the role of social media in giving a platform to unscientific anti-vaccine messages and organizations has become a flashpoint.
In the first study of public health-related Facebook advertising, newly published i...
UMD Prevention Research Center To Focus on LGBTQ Mental Health With New $3.75M From Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The University of Maryland Prevention Research Center (UMD-PRC) is working to improve mental health and health care for LGBTQ+ people with new funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
UMD-Prevention Research Center To Focus on LGBTQ+ Mental Health with $3.7 Million From CDC
Behavioral and Community Health Professor Brad Boekeloo is Director of the UMD Prevention Research Center
The University of Maryland Prevention Research Center (UMD-PRC) is working to improve mental health and health care for LGBTQ+ people with new funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Contr...
Maryland SAFE Center Joins the School of Public Health
The Support Advocacy, Freedom, and Empowerment (SAFE) Center for Human Trafficking Survivors will become part of the School of Public Health this month.
Formed through the MPowering the State initiative that draws on the complementary strengths of the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) and ...
Dr. Amy Lewin Reports Increased Father Involvement Associated With Decreased Infant Stress
A newly published study of teen mothers and their infants in Washington DC by Family Science Assistant Professor Amy Lewin examined father involvement and its role in child social-emotional development. The study found that approximately three-quarters of the infants’ fathers, who were on average 19...