Nine UMBC HAPP Public Health Track students attended the 2015 Fall Symposium at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) on October 13, 2015. Hosted by the Wendy Klag Center for Autism & Developmental Disabilities, the event’s topic was One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Learning about Autism from Studies Big and Small. 

At the reception following the symposium, UMBC students had the opportunity to meet and talk with the speakers as well as graduate students of JHSPH who showcased their autism research at the concurrent poster session. 

Dr. Marie Diener-West, Chair of the MPH program at JHSPH, took time to meet with our UMBC students at the reception and provided invaluable information on their Master’s and Doctoral studies. Through this networking event, two students have secured internship opportunities! 

Way to represent, HAPP Public Health Track students! You make UMBC proud!

This class explores the interrelationship between health, the natural environment and armed conflict. Using specific case studies, this course will explore the connections between environment, health, security, conflict, poverty and peacemaking.

 The course will focus on the following dimensions: 1) The impact of environmental degradation and energy source depletion on conflict formation

2) Conflicts arising out of a context of contested resource wealth
3) Environmental impacts of armed conflicts and the war system
4) Opportunities for environmental peacemaking based on a recognition of shared interests and vulnerabilities.

MoWe 6:00PM - 9:10PM
Math & Psychology 010
7/6/2015 - 8/14/2015
Summer Six Week – Second Session