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UTHealth Houston launches firefighter cancer risk study with kick-off event 

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.

2025 Sharma Fellows Announced

UTHealth Houston Students and Faculty Present Research at International Environmental Health Conference

Guillot-Wright awarded $400,000 to expand Docside Clinics in Port Arthur, TX

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• UTHealth Houston study links firefighter smoke exposure to biological changes that increase cancer risk

• UTHealth Houston Student Partners with Mentor to Win NASA Future Investigators Award

• New Satellite-Driven Model Tracks Long-Term Air Pollution Trends Across China

• Blazing a Trail for a Safer World

• Meet Michael Lemke, PhD, new faculty member in San Antonio and researcher of occupational health hazards

• Lanza Selected as Author on Sixth National Climate Assessment

• Total Worker Health student Sandra Ramirez appointed to Texas Radiation Advisory Board

• Researchers Evaluate Most Effective Methods of Preventing Heat Stress and Illness in Workers

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