Adolescents who met the recommended guidelines of nine-11 hours of sleep per day were shown to have a significantly lower risk of hypertension, according to a new study from UTHealth Houston School of Public Health.
Assistant Professor Kevin Lanza, PhD, has been selected as an author for the Southern Great Plains chapter of the Sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA6). The NCA6 publication, a government-funded report, will analyze the impacts of climate change to be presented to Congress and the president.
Medicare-certified home health agencies, which are key to allowing older adults to age in place, are increasingly going through ownership changes, raising concerns about health care spending, workforce, and quality of care, according to a study by UTHealth Houston.
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health researchers were recently awarded a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a multi-dimensional surveillance system for congenital heart defects (CHD).
March 16, 2022
UTHealth School of Public Health Brownsville campus student, Ghadir Helal Salsa has been named the recipient of the 2022 Dr. Gerry C. Gunnin, Ph.D. Public Health Memorial Fellowship (Gunnin Fellowship). This highly competitive award assists students pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree in public health at an accredited Texas school.
February 25, 2022
Aanand Naik, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Management, Policy and Community Health, and associate dean for Learning Health Systems at UTHealth School of Public Health. Naik has also been selected as the Nancy P. and Vincent F. Guinee, MD Distinguished Chair and executive director of the UTHealth Houston Consortium on Aging.
February 24, 2022
Melissa Peskin, PhD, with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health, has been accepted into The University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine, M.D. Academy of Health Science for her teaching excellence and commitment to the enhancement of health science education.
February 22, 2022
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health announces the establishment innovative academic health partnerships with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) and Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS), formalizing and expanding upon existing collaborations between the school and the institutions that date to the very origins of the entities.
February 8, 2022
The most recent results of The University of Texas MD Anderson initiative, “Active Living After Cancer,” has been published in Cancer, the journal of the American Cancer Society (ACS), showing that an increase of physical activity for breast cancer survivors in minority and medically underserved areas can improve quality of life.
February 8, 2022
The [Peruvian] National Program for Scientific Research and Advanced Studies (ProCiencia), executing unit of the National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (Concytec), together with Lóreal and UNESCO, announced the winning scientists on January 24, 2022.
February 1, 2022
Rachel Allred is an MPH candidate in the department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Science (EHGES) at the Austin campus. She completed a practicum in Summer 2021 with The University of Arizona in which she analyzed data and communicated results of an ethnographic study of women with diabetes and/or hypertension in Senegal, West Africa.
January 31, 2022
“Black history month is not just in February, but should be celebrated 365 days, throughout the whole year,” says Kymberle Landrum Sterling, DrPH, We sat down with Sterling to discuss Black History Month, and learn about her experience as a Black woman in public health, research, and academics.
January 31, 2022
A one-year, $10.3 million dollar grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) was awarded to increase COVID-19 vaccinations through the development and mobilization of existing community-based health and outreach workforces in the state by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).
January 27, 2022
Richard D. Muma, PhD, MPH, PA-C, was named the 15th president of Wichita State University on May 6, 2021. Muma graduated from UTHealth School of Public with a Master of Public Health in Community Health in 1993 and adds this accolade to a distinguished 30-plus year career.
