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Augusto De Moraes

New Study Highlights Need to Develop Assessments on the Family Food Environment

A new study lead by Augusto César Ferreira De Moraes, PhD, assistant professor in Epidemiology, examined the reliability and validity of questionnaires assessing family food environments in adolescents and children.

Emanuelle Dias

Alumna's Study Identifies Organizational Structure as Key to Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening in Federally Qualified Health Centers

Alumna Emanuelle Dias, PhD, publishes a new study that focuses on the impact of organizational readiness on colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in federally qualified health centers.

Stephany Bauer

Bauer Selected as a 2025 Texas Legislative Fellow

Stephany Bauer, MS, DrPH student at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Brownsville, has been selected as a 2025 Texas Legislative Fellow.

Food and Cardiometabolic Health: A Collaborative Study

Food and Cardiometabolic Health: A Collaborative Study

A recently published study1 led by UTHealth Houston School of Public Health Center for Health Equity Research scientist Maha Almohamad, PhD, MS, highlights the significant role that participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)2 may play in mitigating the effects of very low food security on cardiometabolic conditions.

UTHealth Houston researchers begin five-year study into effectiveness and safety of whole blood transfusion

Bags of donated blood before a transfusion, sitting on a table during a surgery

October 24, 2022

Funded by the National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the “Trauma Resuscitation with Group O Whole Blood Or Products” (TROOP) trial will enroll 1,200 patients at 12 trauma centers across the United States, to compare whole blood transfusions to blood component therapy, the current standard in trauma transfusions. Enrollment for TROOP will begin in spring 2023.

 




UTHealth Houston, Baylor College of Medicine to collaborate on new HIV Implementation Science Consultation Hub

UTHealth Houston, Baylor College of Medicine to collaborate on new HIV Implementation Science Consultation Hub

October 7, 2022

The UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science and the Texas Developmental Center for AIDS Research (Texas D-CFAR), a collaboration between Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth Houston and Texas Biomedical Research Institute, recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health to establish the new Texas Implementation Science Hub to End HIV (Texas IS Hub).






National Immunization Awareness Month

August is National Immunization Awareness Month, which is held to observe the importance and need for education about vaccines.

August 10, 2022

Those administering vaccines should address hesitancies some may have by holding “respectful conversations...address any misinformation; share the benefits of vaccines, curate honest information, and rebuild the trust that has been lost in science and public health,” says Paula Cuccaro, PhD. 


Researchers participate and survey LGBTQ+ Community at Houston Pride Festival

Tami-Maury's team survey's attendees at Houston Pride Festival

July 22, 2022

“We’re there to get a pulse on the population’s health behaviors so that we can adjust our healthcare programs to responds the needs of the LGBTQ+ population,” says Irene Tami-Maury, DMD, DrPH, MSc assistant professor with the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences.



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