By Rory Cahill
The School of Public Health’s Career Glaze-Up event allowed students to learn about the university’s career services and how to navigate the current job market. Continue reading UMD public health students on the challenges of the job market
By Sophia Yodice
Teddy the Terp, the University of Maryland’s K9 comfort dog, returned to campus on Wednesday to reassume his wellness role for students in the School of Public Health. Continue reading Teddy the Terp returns to campus to comfort students
By Olivia Borgula In a Zoom discussion on the evening of Feb. 23, Omar Neal, a former mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama, addressed Carmen Thornton, asking “Did you have any inclination at all of what this was, and the magnitude of what had taken place to your grandfather?” Thornton’s grandfather was a subject in the United States Public Health Service syphilis study conducted at Tuskegee. Neal … Continue reading Public health professor hosts descendants of Tuskegee study subjects on talk show
By: Allison Seidel A new initiative to improve environmental justice in Maryland and other states launched last month, thanks to a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and efforts from a University of Maryland School of Public Health professor, Dr. Sacoby Wilson. The Mid-Atlantic Climate Action Hub, also known as the MATCH initiative, was created to promote environmental justice in areas hit the hardest … Continue reading UMD School of Public Health professor helps launch environmental justice initiative
By Maxine Friedman A team of researchers at the University of Maryland School of Public Health is conducting a study titled StopCOVID UMD that focuses on preventing the spread of COVID-19. The team, which operates out of UMD’s Public Health Aerobiology, Virology, and Exhaled Biomarker Laboratory, is working to answer questions such as: How much airborne virus does an infected person exhale? How much virus … Continue reading STOPCovid UMD study seeks to discover how COVID-19 is spread
By Maya Rosenberg Dr. Sacoby Wilson, an associate professor in UMD’s School of Public Health, delivered his lecture on environmental racism and slavery in modern America at the university on Thursday. Wilson’s lecture compared the old Jim Crow laws of discrimination and separation between black and white people to the “new Jim Crow,” which includes gentrification, unequal zoning and police brutality, according to Wilson. … Continue reading Baha’i event sheds light on dangers of environmental racism
Dean of the School of Public Health Boris Lushniak receives his flu shot from Karen Tyson, a staff member from the Health Center, at the Flu Shot Clinic in the School of Public Health on Oct. 22, 2019. Photo by Clara Niel. Continue reading School of Public Health shoots to increase campus vaccinations with annual clinic
By Vanessa Reis The university’s school of public health held its fifth annual Symposium on Environmental Justice and Health Disparities at Stamp Student Union Saturday. A number of panels discussed the usage of litigation as a tool for environmental and social change. One panel in particular discussed the impacts of President Donald Trump’s environmental policies and how to combat these policies through litigation. “What we’re … Continue reading Fifth Annual Symposium on Environmental Justice explores role of pollution in inequality
By Alexander Tuerk A center for survivors of sex and labor trafficking will join the school of public health (SPH) this month, bolstering the center’s mission with the university’s research capabilities. The Support, Advocacy, Freedom, and Empowerment, or SAFE, Center announced the move on March 12. According to their website, the SAFE Center provides “survivor-centered and trauma-informed services” for survivors of trafficking, as well as … Continue reading Center for trafficking survivors joins school of public health
By Maristela Romero Public health researchers from the University of Maryland are working on a new smartphone app to provide more accessible health information to African-American and Spanish-speaking communities. The four-year project received a $1.3 million grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine to bridge the health literacy gap within these minority populations. In 2018, the Pew Research Center conducted a … Continue reading University public health researchers develop health literacy app for minority populations
