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:
- Big Data for Health Equity (BD4HE)
- BioWorkshop
- Brain and Behavior Institute (BBI)
- Center on Aging
- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Center for Engineering Complex Tissues
- Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation
- Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS)
- Center for Health-related Informatics and Bioimaging
- Center for Healthy Families
- Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR)
- Center on Young Adult Health and Development
- Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health
- Community THRIVES Lab
- CONSERVE Center of Excellence at the Nexus of Sustainable Water Reuse, Food, & Health
- Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices
- The Global Health Initiative
- Hashtag Health
- Hearing & Speech Clinic
- Horowitz Center for Health Literacy
- Maryland Center for Health Equity
- Maryland Cochlear Implant Center of Excellence
- Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC)
- Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS)
- Public Health Aerobiology, Virology and Exhaled Biomarker Laboratory (PHAB Lab)
- Together Program
- University of Maryland Prevention Research Center