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Public Health Research at Maryland 2014

Public Health Research@Maryland 2014 was held on Tuesday, April 17, in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union. The day-long event featured speakers, panel discussions and showcased dozens of research posters from a diverse group of students, faculty and external researchers. 

Welcoming Remarks

Speakers:  Jane E. Clark, PhD, Dean, University of Maryland School of Public Health

E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Gerard M. Farrell, Captain US Navy (Retired), Executive Director, US Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Foundatio

Keynote: Building Leadership Teams to Address Critical Needs in Public Health

Keynote Speaker: Surgeon General David Satcher, MD, PhD

Panel discussants: David Ashley, PhD, (Rear Admiral, US Public Health Service) FDA Center for Tobacco Products, Office of Science

Kathleen Hoke, JD, Director, Legal Resource Center for Tobacco Regulation, Litigation & Advocacy, UMB Carey School of Law

Pamela I. Clark, PhD, Department of Behavioral and Community Health, UMD SPH (invited)

Moderator: Ira Chinoy, PhD, Associate Dean of the UMD Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Panel: Affordable Care Act Implementation: Intended and Unintended Consequences for Public Health

Chair: Stephen B. Thomas, PhD, Maryland Center for Health Equity, UMD SPH

Co-Chairs: Robin Newhouse, PhD, RN, School of Nursing, UMB, and Laura Hungerford, DVM, MPH, PhD, Epidemiology and Public Health, UMB School of Medicine (SOM)

Panel: HIV/AIDS: Local/Global Public Health Approaches

Chair: Bradley Boekeloo, PhD, UMD Prevention Research Center

Panelists: Derek Spencer, MS, CRNP, executive director of the Institute of Human Virology Jacques Initiative, UMB; and Hongjie Liu, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UMD SPH

Presentation: Advances in Cancer Prevention and Control

Co-chairs: Cheryl L. Holt, PhD, Department of Behavioral and Community Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health; Joanne Dorgan, PhD, Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland-Baltimore; 

Panelist: William A. Blattner, MD, Institute of Human Virology

Presentation: Physical Activity: the Magic "Pill" for Chronic Disease Prevention?

Chair: J. Carson Smith, PhD, Department of Kinesiology, UMD SPH 

Panelists: James M. Hagberg, Ph.D., Department of Kinesiology, UMD SPH; Richard F. Macko, MD, VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center of Excellence in Exercise and Robotics, UMB SOM

Keynote: The Future of Tobacco Control

Keynote Speaker: Surgeon General Richard Carmona, MD, MPH FACS

Panel discussants:
David Ashley, PhD, (Rear Admiral, US Public Health Service) FDA Center for Tobacco Products, Office of Science
Kathleen Hoke, JD, Director, Legal Resource Center for Tobacco Regulation, Litigation & Advocacy, UMB Carey School of Law
Pamela I. Clark, PhD, Department of Behavioral and Community Health, UMD SPH (invited)

Moderator: Ira Chinoy, PhD, Associate Dean of the UMD Philip Merrill College of Journalism

More than 70 graduate and undergraduate students from seven universities, including the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland Baltimore, Morgan State University, Howard University and Coppin State University, showcased their research on critical public health issues at Public Health Research@Maryland and competed for the best-presented posters. 

​Posters were judged for quality based on the identification of research problem, appropriateness of research design and data analysis, interpretation of results, clarity of oral presentation, description of the relevance of findings to public health and presentation skills.

Doctoral Student Awards

  • Luciana Assini (University of Maryland School of Public Health (UMD SPH), Dept. of Behavioral and Community Health), “Long-Term Consequences of Adolescent Births among African American Urban Youth” 
  • Emily Cook (UMD SPH, Dept. of Family Science), “Treating Behavioral Health Conditions of OEF/OIF Veterans and their Families: A State Needs Assessment of Civilian Providers”

Masters Student Awards

  • Kimberly Stinchcomb (UMD SPH, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health), “A Comparison of 24 Hour Versus First Morning Void Urinary Deoxynivalenol Biomarker Concentration in UK Adults”
  • Meleah Boyle (UMD SPH, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health), “Seasonal Fluctuation in Serum Aflatoxin-Albumin Levels in Children from Guinea, West Africa”

Undergraduate Student Awards 

  • Priya Parikh (UMD, Global Public Health Scholars Program), “Engineering and Public Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Addressing Water Quality in Compone, Peru” 

View the 2014 Research Posters