We're hiring!! 📢 We're Hiring a new Assistant Professor of Maternal & Child Health. Come join our fabulous department where we champion families, health, and social justice! Applications due 1/29/24! 🎉https://t.co/YaVE3kF7vc
The US has one of the highest maternal mortality rates of any high-income country. These rates are especially high among Black & Hispanic women. A recent @CNBC article featuring @FMSCUMD Associate Professor Marie Thoma explores these disparities.
https://t.co/WMXRwNwLez
The vision of @FMSCUMD is to promote the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of all families in order to eliminate the burden of disease and health disparities, and to foster resilience and social justice. Learn more: https://t.co/4LRnCzKgiH
Interested in a graduate degree? Family Science at UMD offers three graduate programs that promote individual, family, and community strategies to improve the public’s health through research, clinical practice, family advocacy, and public policy analysis. https://t.co/GqX3IdlrVQ
Sharing pics from poster day! @UMDPublicHealth staff, faculty and students honored #LatinXHeritageMonth by sharing education, research, practice and service with and in relationship to the Latina/x/o community.
Enlightening lecture on LGBTQ+ youth and families today by the one and only, Pond Ezra! We discussed ways we could utilize concepts within Racial-Ethnic Socialization Theory to apply among heterosexual parents of queer or trans youth. @FMSCUMD#FMSC170
Professor Kevin Roy shares why we must expand the definition of masculinity for white, cisgender men and how #TedLasso offers a guide in this guest commentary for @baltimoresun. @FMSCUMD@UMDResearch https://t.co/y5oVNom3rZ
Unfortunately, many college students carry overwhelming stress on their shoulders. At #UMD, a new one-of-its-kind class trains Terps to manage their mental health and use their skills to help others in need. https://t.co/Tjk9Q6GMok
NEW REPORT:
173,000 women are locked up in the U.S. We show how many are incarcerated in various types of facilities and why they are there:
https://t.co/WZJIl0OU4w
“Race is the modality in which democracy is lived (to paraphrase the sociologist Stuart Hall), and America’s multiracial democracy is distorted by its massive criminal justice system,” writes
@victorerikray for @newrepublic
https://t.co/JrKIgaVQCJ
Thanks, Isha Chawla, for coming to #FMSC170 to talk to us about family financial socialization, inter-generational wealth, and social mobility! @FMSCUMD
Thanks, Dr. Troy Anderson for coming to #FMSC170 and discussing social stratification, social mobility, value clarification, socialization, and about equality of educational opportunities! @FMSCUMD @UMECalvert
Wonderful and informative session on Health Equity, Trauma, and Healing Among Central American Immigrant Families by @FMSCUMD scholars Dr. Andrew Conway, @titayumiseva, and Jessie Moore-Solorzano. Facilitated by our fearless leader, @DrAmyLewin#NCFR2022
Construction of I95 in Miami required the forcible relocation of over 12,000 residents—nearly 100% of them black. Using eminent domain, the gov't seized buildings across the heart of Miami's black community in Overtown, offering owners well below market rate—and renters nothing.