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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health

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Our Vision: We believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to be healthy—without obstacles, caveats, or conditions.

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UTHealth Houston School of Public Health is changing the culture of health through excellence in graduate education, research, and engagement. Every aspect of our educational experience puts our core values into action: students learn to collaborate, lead, transform, and diversify the field of public health. 

We’ve spent over 50 years developing relationships with communities, institutions, governments, and nonprofit organizations to support our mission of facilitating excellence in public health education, research, and community impact. These relationships extend across the country and the state of Texas, where school locations are deeply embedded into each region. Spanning into the state's major metropolitan areas, including Austin, Brownsville, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, and San Antonio, the School of Public Health works to develop and implement solutions to protect the health of the communities each region serves. We can extend the university's mission by offering different modes of learning at each of these locations, partnered with hands-on research and tangible community outreach.

Read more about each of our school's six locations and how they're making a difference in their local communities.  

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November 25

Predictors Of Hospital Participation and Discontinuity in the BPCI-A: Effects On Unplanned Readmission Rate in CHF Patients

Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Online

November 26

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Tia Thomas, BS: Rank-based Information Borrowing from Subgroups and Surrogate Outcomes in Surviv

Time: 8:30 AM
Location: Microsoft Teams

November 26

The Implementation and Sustainability of Substance Use Recovery Homes for People Taking Medications for Opioid Use Disorder

Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Microsoft Teams and Cizik School of Nursing room #350

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Austin

The Austin location is in the capital of Texas, just a few blocks away from The University of Texas at Austin and the UT Austin Dell Medical School.

Faculty members include international experts in health promotion, epidemiology, tobacco, physical activity promotion, food systems and food insecurity.

Home to the Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, the center works to advance health and healthy living for children and families through cutting-edge research, innovative community programs, and dissemination of data-driven practices.

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512-391-2502

Austin

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  • Austin

    Austin

    The Austin location is in the capital of Texas, just a few blocks away from The University of Texas at Austin and the UT Austin Dell Medical School.

    Faculty members include international experts in health promotion, epidemiology, tobacco, physical activity promotion, food systems and food insecurity.

    Home to the Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, the center works to advance health and healthy living for children and families through cutting-edge research, innovative community programs, and dissemination of data-driven practices.

    Contact us

    [email protected]
    512-391-2502

    Austin
  • Brownsville

    Brownsville 

    Brownsville

    The Brownsville location, founded in 2001, is the first university-supported public health research presence in the Rio Grande Valley.

    Faculty members include nationally-renowned virus hunters, experts in Hispanic health, and chronic diseases.

    Home to the Hispanic Health Research Center, whose research has national implications for the future of population health, as communities in the Valley represent the anticipated future demographics of the U.S. Through collaboration and community partnerships, our school location in Brownsville maintains intent focus and dedication to studying and addressing the complex chronic and infectious diseases facing this region. 

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    956-755-0678

  • Dallas

    Dallas

    Located in Southwestern Medical District, the Dallas location collaborates with community partners in the North Texas region to address their health needs around cancer prevention and control, injury and violence prevention, maternal health, and pediatric health.  

    Faculty members include trailblazers in science communication, cancer, violence, and maternal and child health.

    Home to the Center for Pediatric Population Health, a unique collaboration between the school and the Children’s Health System of Texas, which addresses critical health issues affecting children and plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of pediatric healthcare policy and practice.

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    972-546-2929

    Austin
  • El Paso

    El Paso

    Austin

    The El Paso school location is located less than a mile from the US-Mexico border, and is a leader in border health research.

    Faculty members are prominent figures in the El Paso community, working in water safety, disaster and crisis management, and promoting healthy lifestyles through athletics.

    El Paso campus is a residential member of the Medical Center of the Americas Foundation, a hub of innovation for the Paso del Norte region’s health care and biomedical industries.

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    915-747-8500

  • Houston

    Houston

    As a member institution of the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center, the Houston location connects our students and faculty at all of our locations to an extensive network of healthcare systems and organizations.

    Faculty members at in Houston represent expertise across all disciplines of public health.

    Home to eight research centers, Houston is facilitating all types of research, from school-based intervention to data collection and analysis. The school provides students and researchers with the necessary tools and resources needed to think critically and creatively both in and out of the classroom. 

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    713-500-9032

    Austin
  • San Antonio

    San Antonio

    Austin

    Our San Antonio location is the only academic institution in the city offering graduate programs in public health.

    Faculty members have specializations in worker safety, community health for vulnerable populations, and vaccine hesitancy.

    The San Antonio location powers Community Information Now (CI:Now), a nonprofit local data intermediary that provides several different kinds of data support to organizations and collaboratives in Bexar and 11 surrounding counties. The city of San Antonio and the school also offer numerous professional and industry events, making it easy for graduate students to connect with potential mentors and employers.

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    [email protected] 
    210-276-9000

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Biostatistics

The Department of Biostatistics and Data Science is the academic home for statisticians and data scientists working to help people live better by translating data into public health knowledge.

We believe that the synergy between statistics and data science has the means to revolutionize the way we improve population health and deliver healthcare services. This intersection drives evidence-based decision-making in both research and industry, and already serves an integral role in enhancing the quality of life for people around the world. We equip our students with the knowledge and experiences needed to thrive in this era of Big Data. Our well-established faculty develop and maintain interdisciplinary networks across the Texas Medical Center, and use these relationships to ensure students have the opportunity to tackle real world challenges as part of their education.

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  • Biostatistics & Data Science

    Biostatistics

    The Department of Biostatistics and Data Science is the academic home for statisticians and data scientists working to help people live better by translating data into public health knowledge.

    We believe that the synergy between statistics and data science has the means to revolutionize the way we improve population health and deliver healthcare services. This intersection drives evidence-based decision-making in both research and industry, and already serves an integral role in enhancing the quality of life for people around the world. We equip our students with the knowledge and experiences needed to thrive in this era of Big Data. Our well-established faculty develop and maintain interdisciplinary networks across the Texas Medical Center, and use these relationships to ensure students have the opportunity to tackle real world challenges as part of their education.

  • Environmental Science and Occupational Safety

    Environmental Science and Occupational Safety

    Environmental and occupational health scientists are at the forefront of today’s most critical public health challenges. Whether addressing workplace safeguards during a pandemic or mitigating the threats of extreme weather, aging urban infrastructure, and food-borne outbreaks, those working in environmental health inform the health policies that impact where we live and work. Faculty expertise and leadership span industry, government, and academia. Along with interactive curricula, students obtain hands-on learning and research opportunities that produce tangible results for contemporary public health problems. The environmental and occupational health sciences programs are managed by the Department of Environmental Science and Occupational Safety (ESOS). Img5.jpg

  • Epidemiology

    Epidemiology

    Epidemiologists play a vital role in disease prevention and control by studying the determinants and patterns of disease in populations. Through rigorous coursework, we prepare our students to confront some of the most consequential health conditions affecting our local and global communities. Faculty and graduates of our epidemiology programs are leading experts in both chronic and infectious diseases. Our faculty and researchers spearhead initiatives that help extend life expectancy, advance health equity, improve quality of care, and pave the way for innovations in how we improve the quality of care.

  • Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences

    Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences

    The Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences prepares students to work alongside communities to develop, implement and evaluate successful interventions.

    Students join our department because they believe that making healthy life choices attainable and appealing is the most effective way to prevent disease and injury. Many times this means combining evidence-informed theories that address public health challenges with the goals and values of the community to create better intervention outcomes. Our faculty literally wrote the book on developing successful interventions, a seminal work that’s used in public health classrooms around the nation. Their expertise not only helps our students build valuable skill sets, such as how to undertake a needs assessment or evaluate a project’s effectiveness but also encourages them to address their own biases and assumptions to achieve better, more sustainable health programs.

  • Management, Policy and Community Health

    Management, Policy and Community Health

    The Department of Management, Policy and Community Health strikes a balance between academic rigor and hands-on experience.

    The people in our classrooms represent nearly every aspect of the healthcare, medical industries and social scientific research as well as health departments, non-profits and other community-based organizations working to improve health and social conditions inside and outside the clinic. Our faculty strive to create a learning environment that flows seamlessly between the outside world and our classroom by drawing on their perspectives and experiences as well as those of our students. Our program enrollees include hospital administrators, clinical professionals, interdisciplinary students and researchers, state health department executives, nonprofit executive directors and policy directors. Their experience enriches our curriculum and creates a culture of engagement and mentor-ship within the department.

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