Upcoming Events

Dissertation Defense by Yunyi Wang, MS: Transfer Learning in Survival Analysis Using Intermediate Events and Disease Cause
RAS W-102A and Teams

Dissertation Defense by Yunyi Wang, MS: Transfer Learning in Survival Analysis Using Intermediate Events and Disease Causes
RAS W-102A and Teams

Dissertation Defense by Kaiya Farris, MS: Patient-Provider Race Concordance Intention in Women Searching for an Obstetric Provider
1200 Pressler St, Houston, TX 77030 Room: RAS E-605

Dissertation Defense by Soo Kyung Park, MPH: Statistical Methods for a Longitudinal Cohort Study of Chronic Pancreatitis
RAS W-02 and Teams

National Public Health Week: Conversation with Dr. Eric Boerwinkle
Virtual

Thesis Presentation by Christian Mark Palma, BS: Transitions In Tobacco Usage Among Youth in PATH Study (Waves 1-7.5)
AUS 532 or Teams

National Public Health Week: Ready. Set. Yoga!
1200 Pressler St.

Dissertation Defense by Bohong Guo, MPH: Efficient multi-trait genetic association studies for high-dimensional brain imaging data
Teams and RAS E-305

Dissertation Defense: Obesity Severity, Discrimination, and Sleep Health in United States Adults
Microsoft Teams

Thesis Presentation by Ben Black, BS: Frailty as a measure of physiologic reserve at tuberculosis diagnosis
Reuel A. Stallones Building, E-533 and Teams

National Public Health Week: Practice Day
1200 Pressler St.

Dissertation Defense by Gretchen Rodriguez: Occupational Data Quality in Public Health Surveillance
Teams

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Nadia J. Siddiqui, MPH: Legacy of Historic Redlining & Present-Day Food Insecurity in Urban Areas
Zoom

Dissertation Defense by Nompumelelo Mzizi, MSPH:Economic Evaluation of Tuberculosis Algorithms for Screening and Diagnosis
Microsoft Teams

Dissertation Defense by Yesmel King, MA: Understanding Protective Health Behaviors Among Latino Day Laborers During COVID-19
7000 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030 UCT 2526

Thesis Presentation by Kevin Dang, BS: Occupational Risk Factors and Their Associations with Mental Health Outcomes in Firefighter
1200 Pressler St, Houston, TX 77030 RAS E-101 and Teams

Thesis Presentation by Miranda Kapfhammer, BS: Assessing physical function trajectories in CAR-T Therapy
Teams

Thesis Defense by Yuze Liu: Automated Identification of ICD Symptom Codes Using Machine Learning
MS Teams Online

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Kyung Serk Cho, MA: Multiscale statistical and machine learning methods for modeling TLS
RAS: E-549 and Teams

Dissertation Defense by Jacob Siahaan, MS: Incorporating AI Adoption in ED-CDSS: Policy, Initiatives, and Leadership
Teams

National Public Health Week: Community Networking Hour
1200 Pressler St.

Dissertation Defense by Qi Miao, BS: Mass Cytometry Data Compensation and Panel Integration
Zoom

Dissertation Defense by Mackenzie Senn: Relationship Between Food Insecurity, Diet Quality, Eating Behavior, and BMI
Teams

34th Annual Steele Lecture featuring William E. Secor, PhD
RAS Building, 1st floor Auditorium

Dissertation Defense by Tia Thomas: Rank-based Information Borrowing from Subgroups and Surrogate Outcomes in Survival Analysis
RAS W-02

Dissertation Defense by Feng Wang, MS: Manifold Embedding of Undirected Networks using Intrinsic Dimensional Latent Space Model
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88269357080?pwd=eVSKEaajc8eUyKDNNInuNaWV2cai1d.1

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Joseph Baar Topinka, JD, An Analysis of Success Factors for Veterans Treatment Courts in Texas
Zoom

Thesis Presentation by Matthew Sze, BS: Prevalence and Risk Factors of Depression Among TB Patients in the Mexican–Texas Border
Online

Dissertation Defense by Lama Bakhamis, BA, MS: Evaluating the Feasibility of a Culturally Adapted Patient Priorities Care
Microsoft Teams - RAS E305

Dissertation Defense by Brooklyn Adams Baker, MPH: Underlying Influences of Birth Weight Status
1836 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin, TX 78701 (SPH AUS 524)

Dissertation Defense by Valerie Valenzuela, MBA, : Assessment: Role of Employment in the Relationship Between Violence And Wellbei
Virtual

National Public Health Week: SPH Day of Service
See event description

15th Annual SIC Crawfish Boil 2026
Cooley Center Courtyard, 7440 Cambridge St.

Spring 2026 Fleming Center Healthcare Management Case Competition
School of Public Health

Thesis Presentation by Maihemuti Maihediya, MS:Identifying Laboratroy Tests Associated With Physical Disability of AYA Using ML
Teams and sph room W-02

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Kaitlin Brand, MPH, RD: Understanding Severe Maternal Morbidity in Texas
SPH Austin Room 546

Thesis defense by Allyson Flippo: RSV Wastewater Genomic Trends and Clinical Implications
Virtual

Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Region 6/5S Info Session
Teams

Dissertation proposal defense by Brooke Sherry, MPH: Parental Support for Diet and Physical Activity Among Texas Adolescents
Teams

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Qidi Xu, MS: Human Cognition Inspired Multi-Agent Large Language Model Frameworks
RAS E-533

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Stacie Hill Anderson, MPH: Evaluation of emergency department patient navigation intervention
Teams

Dallas County Health and Human Services Info Session
Teams/Dallas: Bluebonnet Room

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Xiaoyang Li, MS: Dynamic Prediction for High-Dimensional Longitudinal Biomarkers
RAS W-100

Carmel Dyer, MD Lecture Series - Improving Advance Care Planning for Patients with Serious Illness
MSB B.645 McGovern Medical School, 6431 Fannin St, Houston, Tx, 77030

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Joshua Strauss, MPH: Telomere Biology and Genomic Instability in Pediatric CNS Malignancies
RAS E-305

Dissertation Defense by Jennifer Thompson, MPH: Mental Health and Willingness to Utilize Peer Support Among University Police
1836 San Jacinto Blvd., SPH AUS 532

Reuel A. Stallones Memorial Endowed Lecture & Building Commemoration
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Hossaena Ayele, MSc
E737

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Eboni Pettus, MBA: Education, Neighborhood Deprivation, and Preventable Cancer Mortality in Texas
Zoom