IN THE PRESS

2024

• Scientific American, Article  by Lydia Denworth, “Walks in Green Parks Mean Stronger Immune Systems and Better Mental Health”, April 16, 2024.

• WGRZ Channel 2 News, Article by Claudine Ewing, “A Vow to Keep Fighting the State Plan for the Kensington Expressway”, April 4, 2024.

2023

• The Daily Campus, Article  by Desirae Sin, “Nature Defined by Racialization: A Talk with Dr. Jennifer Roberts”, October 10, 2023.

• Everyday Health, Interviewed by A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez, “How Black Americans Are Reclaiming Outdoors Spaces — and Their Health”, June 15, 2023.

• National Geographic, Interviewed by Jason Bitten, “How Living Near a Railroad Can Harm Your Health”, February 22, 2023.

• UMD, “Distilling What Matters Most in the New Year: Jennifer D. Roberts, Kinesiology, Talks Humanity and Justice in the New Year”, January 5, 2023.

2022

• EHN Staff, “Our Top 5 Good News Stories of 2022, Jennifer Roberts on Nature as Medicine”, December 28, 2022.

• EPA Press Office, EPA Appoints New Members to Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee and Announces Next Meeting, November 28, 2022.

• Stories Beneath the Shell, Article by Allison Seidel, “Baye and Asa’s “HotHouse” depicts America’s systemic failures through dance”, October 26, 2022.

• Chesapeake Bay Program, Article by Jake Solyst, “Mental health initiative connects UMD students with the outdoors: Nature Rx @ UMD is one of several campus programs in the U.S.”, August 11, 2022.

• The Hill, Article by Gianna Melillo, “Structural Racism Associates with Higher COVID-19 Death Rates in Louisiana”, June 28, 2022.

• Maryland Today, Article by Robert Herschbach, “Structural Racism Drives Higher COVID-19 Death Rates in Louisiana, UMD Study Finds”, June 27, 2022.

• UMD School of Public Health, Interviewed by Kelly Blake, “Advancing Health and Sustainability in Baltimore”, May 31, 2022.

• The Diamondback, Interviewed by Monica Godnick, “UMD Community Members Share Experiences with Hair and Identity”, May 22, 2022.

• UMD A. James Clark School of Engineering, Interviewed by Robert A. Herschbach, “Walking in Beauty, A Harmonious Approach to Engineering”, March 19, 2022.

2021

• The Diamondback, Interviewed by Auzinea Bacon, “With Pandemic Exposing Health Disparities, Maryland Launched Health Equity Commission”, October 28, 2021.

• Public Health Newswire, Interviewed by Louise Dettman, “Restoring Mother Nature For Everyone”, October 27, 2021.

• The Diamondback, Interviewed by Shreya Vuttaluru, “UMD Professors Join in Effort to Bring Free WiFi to Prince George’s County Park”, September 23, 2021.

• Maryland Today, Interviewed by Maryland Today Staff, “Project to Bring Wi-Fi to a Park Near You”, September 17, 2021.

• Maryland Today, Interviewed by Sala Levin, “A Celebration of My Blackness”, June 31, 2021.

• Population Reference Bureau, Article by Lori M. Hunter, “The Health Costs and Benefits of Living Near Roads, Highways, and Light Rail”, May 5, 2021.

• WBEZ Chicago, Article by Steve Bynum, “Closing the Gap on Transportation: Walking or Biking While Black Can Be Deadly”, April 27, 2021.

• Urban Institute, Article by Staff, “How Transit-Oriented Development Can Promote Equitable, Healthy Communities”, February 24, 2021.

• U.S. News and World Report, Interviewed by Anna Almendrala, “A Recipe for Trouble? Reversal of California Outdoor Dining Ban Has Heads Spinning”, February 4, 2021.

2020

• Al Jazeera, Interviewed by Samira Sadeque, “US Service Workers Brace for Another MAGA Rally in Washington DC”, December 12, 2020.

• Newsweek, “How Promising Is The Vaccine News If People Won’t Take It?”, December 8, 2020.

• Maryland Today, Interviewed by Maggie Haslam, “Double Duty”, November 30, 2020.

• The Diamondback, Interviewed by Chloe Goldberg, “UMD Study Finds COVID-19 is Highest in D.C.’s Black Communities and Low-Income Areas”, November 20, 2020.

• Maryland Today, Interviewed by Chris Carroll, “UMD Study: Housing, Demographics Play Outsize Role in D.C.’s COVID Death Disparity”, November 11, 2020.

• Maryland Today, Interviewed by Sala Levin, “A Change Is Gonna Come”, September 21, 2020.

• Maryland Today, Interviewed by Chris Carroll, “Different Viruses, Similar Outcomes”, June 26, 2020.

• New York Times, Interviewed by Kevin Williams, “Coronavirus Crisis Threatens Push for Denser Housing”, May 5, 2020.

• Maryland Today, Interviewed by Samantha Waters, “A Dose of Nature”, February 26, 2020.

• Buffalo News, Article by Staff, “Jennifer D. Roberts Named to Board”, January 29, 2020.

2019

• Maryland Transportation Institute, Interviewed by Robert A. Herschbach, “UMD Professor Studies Health Impacts of Transportation”, October 8, 2019.

• Maryland Today, Interviewed by Sala Levin, “Making Nature Second Nature: New Initiative Promotes Health Benefits of Being Outside”, April 22, 2019.

2018

• Reuters, Interviewed by Carolyn Crist, “Heart Doctors Recommend Less Screen Time, Sedentary Behavior for Kids”, August 13, 2018.

2017

• Baltimore Sun, Interviewed by Kate Magill, “Winter Brings New Chances for a Nature Escape at Patuxent Research Refuge”, December 13, 2017.

• Bethesda Magazine, Article by Joe Zimmermann, “Researcher Looks at Health Effects of Purple Line”, November 17, 2017.

• Washington Post, Interviewed by Katherine Shaver, “Will the Purple Line Make People Healthier?”, November 16, 2017.

• Terp Magazine, Interviewed by Sala Levin, “These Commutes are Made for Walking – Professor Explores How Built Environments Affect Health”, September 14, 2017.