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Disability rights advocates often call for digital technologies and content to be built using a born-accessible approach. The born-accessible approach involves building accessibility into digital technologies and content from the beginning, meaning that only technologies that are accessible are released to users. This should lead to lower costs and eliminate the delay in access when people with disabilities are waiting for inaccessible technologies to be remediated for accessibility.

Influenza viruses cause seasonal outbreaks—and less frequently, pandemics—in people that put a strain on healthcare systems, and they can also cause outbreaks in animals with significant economic consequences to agriculture. The origin of all influenza viruses is wild aquatic waterfowl (e.g., ducks and geese), where the viruses are found in the gut and shed in the feces. The viruses may then find their way into poultry populations, where infection is either in the gut or the respiratory tract. 

The Racial and Social Justice Research-Practice Partnership Collaborative (RSJC), funded by a University of Maryland Grand Challenges Grant awarded to Principal Investigator (PI) Dr. Christine Neumerski and co-PIs Dr. Segun Eubanks and Dr. Jean Snell in the Center for Educational Innovation and Improvement and Dr. Apolonia Calderon in the School of Public Policy, spent its inaugural year building a partnership among project PIs, UMD researchers Dr. Awilda Rodriguez, Dr. Tracy Sweet, and Dr.