Department News

UTHealth Houston becomes go-to resource for health cost clarity

Texans won a major victory for health cost transparency in June with the conclusion of the 89th Texas Legislature, which provided funding support to the Texas All-Payor Claims Database and established the Health Impact, Cost, and Coverage Analysis Program (HICCAP) — both housed at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health’s Center for Health Care Data.

Samiran Ghosh, PhD announced as new Department Chair of Biostatistics and Data Science

Bauer awarded nearly $3 million by CPRIT to establish the Texas Spatial-Temporal Data Science, Informatics, and Modeling Core

Driven by Data, Focused on Change

• Two School of Public Health Faculty Named 2025 Shine Academy inductees
• UTHealth Houston to Lead Data Coordinating Center on $11.4M Multi-Site Clinical Trial
• Department of Biostatistics and Data Science Celebrates 55 Years of Excellence
• Social determinants of health and critically ill children
• NIH Roybal grant funds country’s first elder mistreatment research center in Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston
• Ghosh Inducted as a 2024 Fellow of the American Statistical Association
• Link between e-cigarette use and early age of asthma onset in U.S. adults found through UTHealth Houston research
• Reddy to Analyze the Next Wave of Women's Health

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