Alumna Melissa Lopez Varon, PhD, MS, has built her career at the intersection of cancer prevention and global health. Her path into public health began when she recognized the urgent need for multidisciplinary teams to work beyond traditional clinical expertise.
Second-year PhD student Oluwafunto Adepeju Aladekomo has been selected as a 2025-2026 This is Public Health (TIPH) Ambassador.
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health and Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health hosted a kickoff event to celebrate the launch of a $5 million, multi-year initiative focused on reducing cancer risks and health impacts of environmental exposures for firefighters.
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health and the UTHealth Houston Institute of Implementation Science have been awarded a nearly $2 million federal grant to expand the Texas Implementation Science Research Consultation Hub to End HIV (TX IS Hub).
August 3, 2021
A new study developed by investigators at the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research (CHPPR) will determine the efficacy of the Sustainable Culturally Adapted Nutritious Diet Program (SCAN).
July 19, 2021
Elizabeth Asonye earned her Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Health Promotion and Behavioral Science (HPBS) through the bachelor’s/master’s 4+1 program*, which allows students from partnering undergraduate institutions to earn a master’s degree in public health in as little as one-year post bachelor’s degree. She completed two remote practicum experiences during the Spring 2021 semester, and shares her bridge public health, community health, and clinical medicine with her undergraduate interests in social medicine and the social sciences.
July 19, 2021
Jackson Suplita, a second year healthcare management MPH student, will serve on the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health’s (ASPPH) This Is Public Health (TIPH) 2021-2022 Ambassador Cohort. Members of this cohort are nominated by the institutions they attend and serve to raise awareness about the field of public health through various campaigns.
July 12, 2021
When they returned to the United States in 2001 after several years abroad, Joseph B. McCormick, MD, and his wife, Susan Fisher-Hoch, MD, could have written their own ticket.
“We thought a lot about it and decided, ‘Instead of going back to a big university, let’s think about going to a community where we can really make a difference,’” McCormick remembers.
July 4, 2021
William Lyons, LCSW-S, serves as the Manager of Programs, Social Determinants of Health at Legacy Community Health in Houston, Texas. Legacy, a Federally Qualified Health Center, identifies unmet needs and gaps in health-related services and develops client-centered programs to address these needs. William has served as a preceptor to several School of Public Health students.
July 1, 2021
As the daughter of Mexican immigrant and migrant farmworkers, Anabel Rodriguez, PhD, MPH, knows first-hand the challenges faced by farmworkers and their families.
July 1, 2021
Maira Martinez is a is a PC Specialist and part of the two-person IT team that supports the whole Brownville Regional Campus. With over a hundred and fifty staff, students and faculty and a large community outreach team that are based across a two-county region, Ms. Martinez keeps very busy supporting the work of the campus.
June 25, 2021
On April 30, Shelby Johnson, Public Health Project Coordinator at the Baylor College of Medicine-Houston AIDS Education Training Center (AETC) and UTHealth School of Public Health alumni, facilitated and moderated the HIV Prevention Symposium: Innovative Approaches to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), an all-day virtual event.
June 18, 2021
We are pleased to announce that UTHealth School of Public Health is ranked in the top 25 schools of public health in the nation, as reported by the US News and World Report. This ranking places UTHealth School of Public Health as the number 1 school of public health in Texas. It is through the hard work put in by our faculty and staff that this achievement is possible.
June 16, 2021
Ruth Sanchez, MD, MPH is a graduate from UTHealth School of Public Health’s Austin campus. As a dual-degree MD/MPH student, she was able to share courses between her MD and MPH programs, finishing both degrees faster together than if she had completed them separately.
