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Research Overview
The Department of Public & Community Health has a diverse faculty
with a wide array of research interests,
including:
- Adolescent health (Beck,
Sawyer, Howard
, Voorhees, Boekeloo, Daughters, Green)
- Alcohol abuse - college use (Clark)
- Alcohol and drug abuse (Beck, Daughters, Green)
- Behavioral intervention research
(Boekeloo, Voorhees, Holt, Daughters, Green)
- Cancer screen (Holt)
- Community-based health promotion (Holt, Green)
- Community Health (Desmond,
Voorhees)
- Complementary & Alternative Health
Care (Feldman)
- Distance Learning (Gold)
- Health Behavior (Atkinson,
Feldman, Desmond,
Hyde, Voorhees, Holt, Green )
- Health Disparities (Green, Holt, Daughters)
- Health Informatics (Gold,
Atkinson)
- HIV/AID prevention and intervention (Daughters)
- Human Sexuality (Sawyer)
- Injury prevention/traffic safety
(Beck)
- Instructional Design (Atkinson)
- International/Cultural Health
(Feldman)
- Mental Health
(Green, Daughters)
- Minority health/Social inequalities
in health (Desmond,
Howard, Voorhees, Holt, Daughters, Green)
- Neurobiological mechanisms of addiction (Daughters)
- Nutrition/Nutrition Behavior
(Feldman, Voorhees)
- Obesity (Glover, Clark)
- Occupational Health Promotion
(Feldman)
- Physical Activity (Voorhees)
- Physician Behavior (Boekeloo)
- Program Planning and Evaluation
(Feldman, Beck,
Desmond)
- Psychosocial dimensions of health
behavior (Desmond, Howard,
Voorhees, Holt, Daughters, Green)
- Public health communication &
media development (Atkinson,
Sawyer, Holt)
- Quantitative Methods, Evaluation
(Wang, Green)
- Resilience (Desmond,
Howard, Green)
- Risk behavior (Beck,
Desmond, Daughters, Green)
- School Health (Sawyer)
- Smokeless Tobacco (Glover, Clark)
- Smoking Cessation/Prevention of Onset
(Feldman, Glover,
Voorhees)
- Social & Physical Environmental
Factors (Voorhees)
- Stress and health outcomes (Daughters)
- Stress Management (Hyde)
- Survey Development and Psychometrics (Holt)
- Systems thinking in public health (Clark)
- Tailored Health Education Applications
(Gold)
- Technology in Health Education
(Gold)
- Tobacco harm reduction (Clark)
- Urban Health (Clark)
- Violence prevention/community violence
(Desmond, Howard, Green)
- Women's health (Atkinson, Voorhees, Green)
Specialized laboratories operating within the Department include:
Current funding sources include DHHS, Maryland Department of Transportation,
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NIH, HCFA, and Maryland Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Corporation for National Service.
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Overview