Dr. Stephen Thomas attends historic bill signing

Governor Martin O’Malley today joined Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., House Speaker Michael E. Busch, and Lieutenant Governor Anthony G. Brown to sign legislation to protect public education and improve Marylanders’ quality of life. The Governor signed into law the Maintenance of Effort (MOE) bill and the Maryland Health Improvement and Disparities Reduction Act of 2012.

Collegium of Scholars
Please join us for a presentation and interactive discussion regarding Place-based vs. People-based Interventions to Address Social and Environmental Determinants of Health.

Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Time: 12noon -1:30PM
Location:
Maryland Center for Health Equity
Conference Room
3rd Floor, School of Public Health

Feel free to bring your lunch

The 2012 Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities is now accepting abstracts for program sessions. All abstracts must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on June 15, 2012. The abstract submission website will be available within the next few days with more detailed information. You will receive a follow-up e-mail as soon as the site is available for abstract submissions.

The questions are simple: Where do you go to the doctor? How long does it take you to get there? If there were a new hospital closer to home, would you use it?

But the survey underway in Prince George’s County is intended to address a complex problem. Officials expect the data to give them a detailed look at the state of health and health care in the county, where conditions such as diabetes and heart disease are much more common than in the rest of the region and most of the state.

Institute for a Healthiest Maryland Announced

Baltimore (November 15, 2011) -- Jay A. Perman, MD, President of the University of Maryland, and Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH), announced today the creation of the Institute for a Healthiest Maryland, a collaboration of support systems that will guide efforts to combat chronic diseases across Maryland. The Institute’s mission will focus on obesity prevention, tobacco cessation and the reduction of hypertension and high cholesterol, and will link local health departments and community leaders to proven interventions in health and wellness.

A literary lesson Students learn story of first-year book from Henrietta Lacks’ son

Sixty years ago, scientists used the cells of Henrietta Lacks — a poor, black woman — for research without her permission, and a book detailing this has sparked conversations about medical professions' ethics in various classrooms across the campus.