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ICYMI: Univ. of Maryland’s Dr. Stephen B. Thomas shared his #HealthEquity efforts:

💈Building a network of barbers and stylists
🪮 Promoting health screenings with HAIR
💉Giving COVID-19 Shots at the Shop

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Learn more about Stephen B. Thomas: tinyurl.com/5mwhu7j6

It’s World Water Day! 💧

The Global FEWture Alliance and Maryland Safe Drinking WATER study team are two groups at UMD Public Health improving water-related health outcomes locally and beyond. Join us in ensuring that water is a human right.

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TSC is pleased to spotlight Dr. Stephen B. Thomas Stephen B. Thomas, a leading Univ. of Maryland scholar whose work in health equity takes a hyperlocal look at community-based interventions to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities! #CelebrateScientistsDay #ScienceIsEveryone

Learn more about this life-changing #PublicHealth initiative: youtu.be/UykJQahv0F4?si…

The Covid-19 pandemic brought racial and ethnic health disparities into focus. Univ. of Maryland’s Dr. Stephen B. Thomas Stephen B. Thomas developed a unique method to address these disparities and advance #HealthEquity : the Health Advocates In-Reach and Research (HAIR) campaign.

Dr. Stephen B. Thomas of Stephen B. Thomas has spent his career helping to advance #HealthEquity and eliminate health disparities―from cancer screenings to COVID-19. Read how he works with barbers and stylists to promote community health at Univ. of Maryland: tinyurl.com/5mwhu7j6

HAIR is a community-based intervention that works to provide health education and services through trusted avenues: barbershops and salons! Thanks to the trust barbers and beauticians have in African American communities, HAIR helps increase vaccinations and health screenings.

During the pandemic, African Americans’ vaccination rates lagged compared to other groups. Shots at the Shop engaged barbers and stylists to dispel myths about COVID and administer vaccines. Watch to learn more: youtu.be/vhanb-csxFs?si…

From Dr. Stephen B. Thomas’ Stephen B. Thomas NIH-funded Health Advocates In-Reach and Research (HAIR) initiative at Univ. of Maryland grew Shots at the Shop: a partnership with the White House to address COVID in communities of color.

What is the biggest mistake people make when using personal loans to consolidate credit card debt? Learn the answer to this question and more about credit card consolidation in a recent WalletHub article featuring Family Science @ UMD Professor Mitch Mokhtari.

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Prior to the development of COVID vaccines, the virus killed Democrats and Republicans equally. But after vaccines became available, overwhelmingly red counties had much higher COVID death rates than dark Blue counties. This didn’t have to happen.

In today's The Baltimore Sun SPH's Dr. Stephen Thomas, director of the Maryland Center for Health Equity, shares how fentanyl underscores need for access to all opioid-reversal agents in Maryland: brnw.ch/21wHRYw