More than 200 students, faculty, and staff from across UTHealth Houston gathered at the new UTHealth Houston School of Public Health building to attend the Houston Health Department open house on Oct. 8, bringing university community members together with public health practitioners to explore programs, build connections, and discover opportunities for collaboration.
The UTHealth Houston addiction recovery science researchers behind Project HOMES have recently received $25 million to continue to grow recovery housing in Texas. This funding will enable the creation of the HEART with HOMES Initiative, which combines the existing foundational expertise of Project HOMES with the momentum and resources of HEART (Housing Expansion for Access to Recovery for Texans) — all with the goal of continuing to enhance recovery housing throughout Texas.
A team of UTHealth Houston researchers has been awarded a five-year, $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify genetic markers that may contribute to weight gain after stopping GLP-1 medications.
Welcome to “Ask the Expert,” a UTHealth Houston news series where our leading experts examine pressing health challenges. In this edition, we address child obesity to support Childhood Obesity Awareness Month.
October 14, 2026
More than 200 students, faculty, and staff from across UTHealth Houston gathered at the new UTHealth Houston School of Public Health building to attend the Houston Health Department open house on Oct. 8, bringing university community members together with public health practitioners to explore programs, build connections, and discover opportunities for collaboration.
October 14, 2026
The UTHealth Houston addiction recovery science researchers behind Project HOMES have recently received $25 million to continue to grow recovery housing in Texas. This funding will enable the creation of the HEART with HOMES Initiative, which combines the existing foundational expertise of Project HOMES with the momentum and resources of HEART (Housing Expansion for Access to Recovery for Texans) — all with the goal of continuing to enhance recovery housing throughout Texas.
October 2, 2026
A team of UTHealth Houston researchers has been awarded a five-year, $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify genetic markers that may contribute to weight gain after stopping GLP-1 medications.
September 30, 2026
Welcome to “Ask the Expert,” a UTHealth Houston news series where our leading experts examine pressing health challenges. In this edition, we address child obesity to support Childhood Obesity Awareness Month.
September 23, 2026
UTHealth Houston researchers have found that long COVID diagnoses varied significantly across populations and variant periods over a two-year period, revealing patterns that could help public health agencies and health systems better target follow-up and care, monitor long-term impacts, and allocate healthcare resources where they’re needed most.
September 14, 2026
Welcome to Ask the Expert, a UTHealth Houston news series in which leading experts examine pressing health challenges. In this edition, we address National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day.
September 11, 2026
For alumna Taylor Downs, MPH ‘26, her journey to studying at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health began with her love of fitness, a parental connection to healthcare, and a new perspective on what it means to prioritize health.
September 11, 2026
Risk factors for cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic disease, a health condition made up of heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, and obesity, can be identified in children as young as 8, UTHealth Houston researchers discovered.
September 9, 2026
Recent graduate Jennifer L. Thompson, PhD, MPH, has completed the epidemiology doctoral program at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health and is taking the next step in a career dedicated to research, teaching, and improving public health.
September 3, 2026
In addition to being professor at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, Jack Tsai, PhD, is the founding editor-in-chief of an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing the latest mental health research, whic has earned an impact factor score of 9.1 this year.
