Upcoming Events

Dissertation Proposal Defense by May Hashish, MD, MSc: Work-related risk factors for cardiometabolic and chronic kidney diseases
Microsoft Teams meeting

Dissertation Defense by Kai Jiang, MS: Bayesian Methods for Microbiome-Metabolome Data Integration
SPH HOU 956

Thesis Presentation by Ian Huh, BS: Association Between Physical Activity and Sleep Among 8th- and 11th-Grade Students
Teams

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Chidera Emeto, MA: Perinatal Social Support Among Black Families in Texas
Microsoft Teams

Student Flu Shots
PHB Room 120.01

Practicum Learning Contracts Information Session
Teams

Epidemiology Seminar
by Teams in the MS-Teams Calendar

Dissertation Defense by Bonifacio Vega II, MPA, BSHS: Culturally Tailored Responses to Food Insecurity in Maverick County
Teams

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Oladipo Kunle Afolayan, MS: Hybrid Statistical and Multimodal Deep Learning for Suicide Risk
Teams

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Iman Egab, MPH: Expanding the Rules of nonsense-mediated decay (NMD)
PHB 956

Dissertation Defense by Lorena Macias-Navarro, MSc: Conversational Agents in Nutrition: Synthesis, Methods, and Evaluation
PHB HOU 956 (9th floor)

Dissertation Defense by Yuanliang yang, MS: Innovative Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs for Addressing Potential Patient
TBD

Dissertation Defense by Yuanliang yang, MS: Innovative Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs for Addressing Potential Patient
TBD

Carmel Dyer Lecture Series, "Dysautonomia Across the Lifespan” – Elsa M. Rodarte, MD
PHB 210, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, 1930 Old Spanish Trl, Houston, TX 77054

Thesis Presentation by Mounika Ashannagari, B.Tech: INTEGRATING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE GENETICS WITH SINGLE-NUCLEUS TRANSCRIPTOMICS
Teams

Dissertation Defense by Holly Hughes Garza, DVM, MPH: Pediatric traumatic injury research with healthcare administrative data
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin, 1836 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin, Texas 78701, Room 518 and via Teams

Thesis Presentation by Hana Lee, BS: Targeted Viral Screening and Exploratory Metatranscriptomic Profiling of Amblyomma Ticks
Teams

Dissertation Defense by Zhiyi Yue, MA: The Data–Model–Evidence (DME) Framework for EHR-Based Disease Prediction
PHB 1055.07

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Khadija Ziauddin: Perceived Barriers to Colonoscopy Screening among Spousal Dementia Caregivers
Teams

Dissertation Defense by Rachit Sabharwal, BS, MS: Multimodal Deep Learning for Outcome Prediction After Traumatic Brain Injury
PHB 832.01

Dissertation Defense by Zhuoyun Li, MPH: The Impact of Antidiabetic/Antihypertensive Medications on the ADRD risk
TBA

Dissertation Defense by Weixin Lu, MS: Ultra-Processed Food Intake, Sociodemographic Differences, and Early Cardiometabolic Risk
Microsoft Teams

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Michelle Pennington, MPH: Firearm-Related Suicide Among Professional Firefighters
WebEx

Dissertation Defense by Jinze Li: Wastewater-Based Surveillance of Gastrointestinal and Respiratory Viruses
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, 1930 Old Spanish Trail, Houston, TX 77054, Room PHB 856; and via Microsoft Teams

Dissertation Defense by Adrick Harris, MPH:Voices from the Field: Job Satisfaction and Burnout Among Black Community-Based Nurses
Teams

Thesis Presentation by Nathanael Emerick, BS: Proteomics Response to Commercial Spaceflight Across Five Missions
UTHealth School of Public Health, Room 312, 1930 Old Spanish Trail, Houston, TX 77054

Dissertation Defense by Weilu Zhao, MBBS, MS: Discovering HIV Symptom Patterns and Their Associations with Health Outcomes Using
TBD

Dissertation Defense by Kaitlin Brand, MPH, RD: Understanding severe maternal morbidity in Texas
Teams, SPH Austin 5th Floor Conference Room

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Nakaya Melvin, MPH: A Songbird Hatching from the Black Mama's Womb
Microsoft Teams

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Chengyuan Yang: Statistical Methods for Multivariate Clinical Endpoints and Healthcare Records
PHB 732.01

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Sheikh Zaman, MBBS, MPH: Effect Modification of ASD on the association of COO, Heavy metal, gene
Online (Microsoft Teams)

Dissertation Defense by Shiwei Lin, MS: Methods for Biomedical Data Exploration and Analysis
PHB 714

2026 Texas Food Is Medicine Movement: From Plate to Policy Summit
UTHealth Houston PHB Building

Congenital Syphilis and the Neonate: What NICU and Newborn Teams Need to Know
Virtual - Microsoft Teams

Implementation Science Seminar - Advancing the Science of Sustainability in Implementation Science
Online via Zoom