Public Health Beyond Borders UMD

🌍 Want to bring Public Health Beyond Borders to YOUR campus? 🌍

We’re looking for passionate students ready to start a PHBB chapter at their college or university! Starting a chapter means:

✅ Leadership opportunities
✅ Community service
✅ Public health advocacy
✅ Professional development

If you’re ready to make an impact and build something meaningful on your campus, we want to hear from you! 💚

Complete our Interest Form (link in bio) or scan the QR code above to get started.

This is your sign to get involved! Scan the QR code above (or hit the link in our bio) to join our mailing list and you’ll be the first to know about our programs, events, plus the impact as we work toward a healthier, more equitable world.

Ready to do more? Let us know you’re interested in volunteering when you sign up. We’re always looking for passionate people to help us advance global public health education and advocacy. ❤️

HealthForAll

We just launched something we’re really excited about: our Monthly Giving Program 🎉

PHBB runs entirely on volunteers, students and early-career public health folks doing this work because we believe in it. Your monthly gift, at any level, keeps that work going.

💛 $5/month —> Skip a coffee, fuel the mission. Covers the day-to-day costs of running an all-volunteer nonprofit.
💙 $10/month — > Grow the movement. Helps us connect with global health students and changemakers worldwide.
❤️ $25/month —> Empower emerging global health leaders. Funds an honorarium for an early-career professional building global health equity skills.
💚 $50/month —> Open doors to opportunity. Helps send a student on their first PHBB trip to experience global community health firsthand.

Every tier moves us forward. Click the link in our bio to donate now 🌍

Since 2013, PHBB has empowered students to drive global health impact from university campuses to communities in Peru, Sierra Leone, India, and Kenya. Now, we’re looking for someone to help us grow. 🌍

We’re hiring two Non-Profit Operations Interns for an 8-week remote summer term.

This role is perfect for an undergraduate student passionate about public health, nonprofit operations, and making a tangible difference at an early-stage, entirely volunteer-run organization.

You’ll rotate through our Development and Communications teams, gaining hands-on experience in grant writing, social media strategy, and email marketing with a $250 stipend included.

🗓 Deadline: June 23, 2026 at 11:59 PM EDT
📩 Apply by sending your cover letter + resume to [email protected]

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PHBB, Inc. is excited to welcome Sarita Miller to our staff as Development Coordinator. She is most excited to see PHBB grow and to continue working with the amazing PHBB, Inc. team!

Check out the RISE press release from UMD about PHBB’s advancement to International U21 RISE Showcase. Links to our video can be found in our bio!

To continue celebrating Women’s History Month, PHBB is highlight Marilyn Hughes Gaston who became the first African American woman to direct a Public Health Service Bureau in 1990. She published a groundbreaking report in 1986 that proved the effectiveness of giving children suffering from SCD long-term penicillin treatment to prevent septic infections.

In honor of , today we are highlighting Dr. Antonia Novello who was the first woman and the first Hispanic to serve as surgeon general of the United States. Novello served in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps for many years, working with the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Disorders. She later became deputy director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, focusing on pediatric AIDS!