Health Research
As one of the nation’s leading research universities, the University of Maryland is well positioned to advance and translate public health knowledge to improve health and well-being. Faculty and students are involved in a broad range of scientific endeavors and research centers whose focus spans from the cellular to the societal level. Our laboratories and research programs are making a difference in critical areas, from understanding how respiratory viruses spread through air to climate change’s impacts on health, physical activity’s benefits to aging brains, innovative approaches to treating cancer, and advancing health equity, among others.
UMD Select Capabilities:
- Brain and Behavior Institute (BBI)
- Horowitz Center for Health Literacy
- Maryland Center for Health Equity
- University of Maryland Prevention Research Center
- CONSERVE Center of Excellence at the Nexus of Sustainable Water Reuse, Food, & Health
- Center for Healthy Families
- Center on Young Adult Health and Development
- Center on Aging
- The Global Health Initiative
- Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices
- BioWorkshop
- Center for Engineering Complex Tissues
- Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation
- Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS)
- Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC)
- Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR)
- Hearing & Speech Clinic
- Maryland Cochlear Implant Center of Excellence
- Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS)
- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Center for Health-related Informatics and Bioimaging
- Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health
- Public Health Aerobiology, Virology and Exhaled Biomarker Laboratory (PHAB Lab)
- Together Program
- Hashtag Health
- Big Data for Health Equity (BD4HE)