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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)
- Alcohol and drug abuse (Beck)
- Behavioral intervention research
(Boekeloo, Voorhees)
- Community Health (Desmond,
Voorhees)
- Complementary & Alternative Health
Care (Feldman)
- Distance Learning (Gold)
- Health Behavior (Atkinson,
Feldman, Desmond,
Hyde, Voorhees)
- Health Informatics (Gold,
Atkinson)
- Human Sexuality (Sawyer)
- Injury prevention/traffic safety
(Beck)
- Instructional Design (Atkinson)
- International/Cultural Health
(Feldman)
- Minority health/Social inequalities
in health (Desmond,
Howard, Voorhees)
- Nutrition/Nutrition Behavior
(Feldman, Voorhees)
- Obesity (Glover)
- 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)
- Public health communication &
media development (Atkinson,
Sawyer)
- Quantitative Methods, Evaluation
(Wang)
- Resilience (Desmond,
Howard)
- Risk behavior (Beck,
Desmond
)
- School Health (Sawyer)
- Smokeless Tobacco (Glover)
- Smoking Cessation/Prevention of Onset
(Feldman, Glover,
Voorhees)
- Social & Physical Environmental
Factors (Voorhees)
- Stress Management (Hyde)
- Tailored Health Education Applications
(Gold)
- Technology in Health Education
(Gold)
- Violence prevention/community violence
(Desmond, Howard)
- Women's health (Atkinson, Voorhees)
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