Public Health Research@Maryland 2014 Student Poster Presentation Winners

This past Tuesday, more than 70 graduate and undergraduate students from seven universities, including the University of Maryland, College Park and University of Maryland Baltimore, Morgan State University, Howard University and Coppin State University, showcased their research on critical public health issues at Public Health Research@Maryland, and competed for the best presented posters.

Congratulations to the 2014 PHR@M Day poster winners:

 Family Science Doctoral student Emily Cook with winning poster

Doctoral students:

•  Luciana Assini (University of Maryland School of Public Health (UMD SPH), Dept. of Behavioral and Community Health), “Long-Term Consequences of Adolescent Births among African American Urban Youth” 
• Emily Cook (UMD SPH, Dept. of Family Science), “Treating Behavioral Health Conditions of OEF/OIF Veterans and their Families: A State Needs Assessment of Civilian Providers”

Environmental Health MPH student Meleah Boyle 

with winning poster

Master's students:

• Kimberly Stinchcomb (UMD SPH, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health), “A Comparison of 24 Hour Versus First Morning Void Urinary Deoxynivalenol Biomarker Concentration in UK Adults”
• Meleah Boyle (UMD SPH, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health), “Seasonal Fluctuation in Serum Aflatoxin-Albumin Levels in Children from Guinea, West Africa”

Undergraduate student:

• Priya Parikh (UMD, Global Public Health Scholars Program), “Engineering and Public Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Addressing Water Quality in Compone, Peru” 

Undergraduate winner Priya Parikh with

UMD SPH Dean Jane E. Clark and Dr. Bruce

Jarrell, Chief Academic and Research Officer,
Senior Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School,
University of Maryland Baltimore

Posters were judged for quality based on identification of research problem, appropriateness of research design and data analysis, interpretation of results, clarity of oral presentation, description of relevance of findings to public health and presentation skills.








For the complete list of poster abstracts, visit: http://sph.umd.edu/PHRM/PHRM14posters.pdf.