A class of medications developed and commonly used to treat diabetes and weight management, glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), rose in prescribing trends significantly from 2018 to 2023.
Three UTHealth Houston School of Public Health students have been selected as the 2025 Shreela and Vibhu Sharma Endowment for Excellence in Community Nutrition, Climate Health, and Sustainability fellows.
While body mass index (BMI) is an effective tool for identifying obesity in children, these measurements alone do not always distinguish kids with unhealthy levels of body fat, especially in low-resource communities along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to researchers at UTHealth Houston.
For alumnus Dennis Ogeto Nyachoti, DrPH, his fervor to study public health dates back to his childhood, where he witnessed the harsh impact and economic toll preventable illnesses took on rural and underserved communities.
July 18, 2025
Alumna Angela Branch-Vital, PhD, has been named the Inaugural Dean of the Prairie View A&M University School of Public and Allied Health.
July 17, 2025
Professor Bing Yu, PhD, has been awarded a $4.1 million R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to lead a four-year study investigating heart failure in Hispanic and Latino populations.
July 15, 2025
Assistant Professor Yun Hang, PhD, MS, and an international research team have developed a satellite-driven super learner machine-learning model to examine particulate organic carbon (OC) pollution across China.
July 1, 2025
Researchers identify a new link between rare genetic pairs and increased risk of laterality defects, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Human Genetics.
June 30, 2025
Four UTHealth Houston School of Public Health students have been selected as 2025 Albert Schweitzer Fellows.
June 3, 2025
Cici Bauer, PhD was awarded nearly $3 million in funding from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to establish the Texas Spatial-Temporal Data Science, Informatics, and Modeling Core (TEX-SIM).
June 2, 2025
A new study from UTHealth Houston School of Public Health and Child Health and Development Studies at the Public Health Institute (PHI) has found that children whose fathers worked in craft, operative, service or labor occupations experienced higher incidence rates of developing colorectal cancer later in life.
May 29, 2025
An innovative outbreak detection program that tracks disease-causing viruses in wastewater identified the measles virus in Houston samples collected in early January 2025, before cases were reported.
May 15, 2025
On April 5, 2025, the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health buzzed with energy as graduate students from healthcare management programs across Texas gathered for the annual Fleming Center Case Competition. Hosted by The Board, a student-led organization within the Master of Public Health in Healthcare Management program, the event invited teams to solve a timely and complex healthcare leadership challenge.
May 14, 2025
Kari North, PhD, an internationally recognized leader in genetic epidemiology and public health genomics, joined UTHealth Houston as the university’s vice president of border health and a professor with UTHealth Houston School of Public Health.
