RESPIRAR’s Devon Payne-Sturges earns top environmental health honor

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Devon Payne-Sturges, co-director of the RESPIRAR Project, has won the 2024 Homer Calver Award, a prestigious honor recognizing nationally renowned environmental health experts.

Devon Payne-Sturges poses for a photo during RESPIRAR's 2024 open learning course on the Eastern Shore. Photo credited to: Elise Ferrer/RESPIRAR

Devon is an associate professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health’s Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health, where Department Chair Amy Sapkota, calls the award “one of the most prestigious awards that an environmental health scientist can receive, and well-deserved by Dr. Payne-Sturges.”

Nominated by the American Public Health Association (APHA) Environment Section, Devon was “completely surprised and deeply, deeply honored.”

Devon speaks with student reporter Sumaya Abdel-Motagaly about her work in a blog featured on the School of Public Health’s website.

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