ABOUT

ADDRESSING WOMEN'S HEALTH TO IMPROVE FAMILY HEALTH

Dr. Thoma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Science, School of Public Health at the University of Maryland. She teaches undergraduate courses in maternal and child health and graduate courses in reproductive and perinatal epidemiology. Through her teaching and scholarship, she is committed to addressing factors that influence women's reproductive and perinatal health and enhancing population-based methodologies to examine critical questions in this field. 

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Dr. Thoma was raised in Maryland and is proud to be a Terp! She majored in Anthropology (minor in Nutrition) at the University of Pennsylvania and received her PhD (Dept. of Population, Family, Reproductive Health) and MHS (Biostatistics) at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.