University of Maryland School of Public Health

School of Public Health

Established	2007 (2007)
Parent institution	University of Maryland
Dean	Boris Lushniak, MD, MPH
Undergraduates	2258
Postgraduates	526
Location	College Park, Maryland , Maryland , United States of America
Website	sph.umd.edu

The University of Maryland School of Public Health is located in College Park, Maryland. U.S. News & World Report ranked the school 28th among all schools and programs of public health in 2023. It contains the departments of Department of Behavioral and Community Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Family Science, Department of Health Policy and Management, Department of Kinesiology and Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health. It also includes the Herschel S. Horowitz Center for Health Literacy, the nation's first academic center focused on improving health literacy, the Maryland Center for Health Equity, which focuses on eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities, and the Prevention Research Center, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded center focused on improving mental health and eliminating health disparities and related social injustices experienced by LGBTQ+ persons.

It has been fully accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health since 2016.

Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, who served as acting Surgeon General of the United States from July 17, 2013 to December 15, 2014, is dean of the UMD School of Public Health.