Univ of Maryland School of Public Health  

College Park,  MD 
United States
http://www.sph.umd.edu

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At the University of Maryland School of Public Health, we are driven by a passion to break down the societal barriers that keep individuals, families, communities and populations from optimum health and wellness. 

Established in 2007 to advance a better state of health for the diverse populations of Maryland and beyond, our school builds upon a foundation of disciplines that originated over 165 years ago when our land grant university was established.

With more than 2800 students across 25 different degree programs—including bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral and certificate programs—the UMD School of Public Health is preparing the next generation of public health leaders who are dedicated to advancing health equity, literacy and smart, science-based solutions to promote well-being. 

We're ranked in the top ten public schools of public health in the country — and tied for No. 20 overall. Our academic excellence and location at one of the nation’s leading research institutions positions us to advance and translate public health knowledge to improve health and well-being for all. 

Our academic programs provide you with: 

• Leadership and career development  - Interdisciplinary and hands-on experiences that accelerate your successful entry into the public health workforce 

• Expertise from leading faculty who are dedicated to mentorship and supporting student success  

• Authentic community connections to local and global partner organizations

• Cultural competency skills through our focus on promoting health equity, health literacy and social justice 

• Unique research and internship experiences found only in the national capital region 

We are Public Health Terps! Join us in fearlessly promoting health for all!

Join the University of Maryland School of Public Health’s Graduate Admissions team during one or both of our APHA chat sessions. Information for these sessions can be found below:

• Monday, October 25, 1-2 pm (EST)
• Tuesday, October 26, 1-2 pm (EST)

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• List of SPH students and researchers presenting at the APHA 2021 (Oct 25, 2021)
  Faculty and students from the University of Maryland School of Public Health will present scientific papers and posters at the 2021 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting online and in Denver, Colorado October 24-27. 

• Graduate Admissions Info Sessions (Oct 20, 2021)
  • Monday, October 25, 1-2 pm (EST) : https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvcuGtqj0iGNf-lhXMtX2ZU1GVRv34CRHC

  • Tuesday, October 26, 1-2 pm (EST): https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvcuGtqj0iGNf-lhXMtX2ZU1GVRv34CRHC

  Visit our website for other opportunities to connect.

• Careers at UMD-SPH (Oct 20, 2021)
  • Faculty Job Postings
  • Other Job Postings

 Press Releases

• Health Literacy Spans Language Divide (Oct 20, 2021)

  Researchers Help Mobilize Maryland Communities to Fight COVID, Close Health Disparity Gaps.

  October is Health Literacy Month! Our Horowitz Center for Health Literacy is holding its fourth annual Health Literacy in Action conference October 14-15, 2021. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Horowitz Center Director Cynthia Baur and team have been working with health departments throughout Maryland to support efforts to most effectively reach diverse communities with timely and live-saving messages about how to protect themselves and their families from COVID-19. They are also working with the UMD Prevention Research Center to address access to and confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine among LGBTQ+ populations by partnering LGBTQ+-serving organizations around the United States. 

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• $3.7M NIH Grant Supports Development of Chatbot to Support New Moms, Babies (Oct 20, 2021)

  Quynh Nguyen and Elizabeth Aparicio will Develop and Test Tech-enabled Tool Reduce Disparities in Maternal and Child Health.

  New parents may soon have a reliable and easy way to find information to guide them through the uncertainty of caring for a new baby—a chatbot named Rosie. 

  With a $3.7 million grant (R01) from the National Institutes of Health, Epidemiology Associate Professor Quynh Nguyen (principal investigator) and Behavioral and Community Health Assistant Professor Elizabeth Aparicio (co-principal investigator) will develop this tech-enabled tool that they hope can reduce post-partum depression among new moms and improve infant health.  

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• Recovering from COVID-19 in Prince George's County, Maryland (Oct 20, 2021)

  New Report Provides Urgent Recommendations to Inform the Ongoing Response to COVID-19 and Increasing Health Equity in Majority-Black Prince George’s County.

  A new report released September 15th by the University of Maryland School of Public Health provides urgent recommendations to inform the ongoing response to the COVID-19 in Prince George’s County, Md, which has led Maryland in COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths throughout the pandemic. There are still significant numbers of county residents, particularly African Americans, who have not been vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 and who remain at risk from the Delta variant and other emerging virus strains. The report findings and recommendations are made with the goal of helping the county recover by continuing to increase the numbers of vaccinated, but also by increasing engagement in support of an ongoing community health campaign that outlives and transcends the COVID-19 pandemic. Ideally, this campaign would be sustained over the next decade or more to address other health issues, such as chronic diseases, HIV, infant mortality and unequal access to health care, the report suggests.

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• Study: Anti-Black Racism Fell—Temporarily—Following George Floyd’s Killing (Oct 20, 2021)

  UMD SPH Researchers Studied Millions of Tweets for Evidence of Bias.

  George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police last May sparked horror, outrage and demands for change worldwide. But a new study led by University of Maryland researchers used Twitter data to take the nation’s pulse on race-related sentiments and suggests that changes in attitudes—particularly about anti-Black sentiment—were short-lived following the high-profile killings of Floyd and other unarmed Black people in early 2020.

  Nationwide, the proportion of tweets referencing Black people in a negative way after the Floyd killing declined by 32%, but anti-Black tweets returned nearly to baseline levels by July, according to a new study published this month in the journal SSM-Population Health.

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• 7th Annual EJ Symposium Urges the Time to Act on Climate Justice is Now (Oct 20, 2021)

  With the Biden administration spotlighting EJ issues in an unprecedented way, Dr. Sacoby Wilson propels folks to take advantage

  Climate change is impacting us all, but it’s not impacting us all the same way, Dr. Sacoby Wilson, director of the Center for Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health, said during the opening session of the 2021 Environmental Justice and Health Disparities Symposium, Aug. 19-21. 

  Each year, Wilson, an associate professor with the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, brings together environmental justice advocacy groups, researchers, scholars, legal professionals, policymakers and others to have open dialogue conversations about the various ways of how climate change is affecting communities. But the 2021 event paid special attention to the unprecedented work that leaders in the Biden administration are doing to advance environmental justice, including EPA Administrator Michael Regan and Dr. Cecilia Martinez, senior director of environmental justice for the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality, who both spoke at the event. 

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