Second-year PhD student Oluwafunto Adepeju Aladekomo has been selected as a 2025-2026 This is Public Health (TIPH) Ambassador.
Over the past 5 years, the Salud en Mis Manos-Dissemination and Implementation Assistance (SEMM-DIA) program at the UTHealth Houston Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research (CHPPR) has examined how evidence-based interventions are implemented by clinics serving underserved communities.
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.
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health and the UTHealth Houston Institute of Implementation Science have been awarded a nearly $2 million federal grant to expand the Texas Implementation Science Research Consultation Hub to End HIV (TX IS Hub).
September 5, 2024
A five-year, $5 million grant will allow researchers from UTHealth Houston and The University of Texas at Austin to test how community-level interventions can improve health and reduce disparities in low-income communities in Central Texas.
September 5, 2024
Assistant Professor Kevin Rix, PhD, MPH, at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Dallas, collaborated with a team of researchers to analyze drowning incidents of children aged 0-17 at a Texas Level 1 pediatric trauma center.
August 28, 2024
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health is introducing a new Master of Social Work/ Master of Public Health (MSSW/MPH) dual degree program in collaboration with The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).
August 28, 2024
Dr. Derek Craig, a new faculty member in the UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science and the School of Public Health, is a School of Public Health alumnus and a former postdoctoral fellow of UTHealth Houston’s NCI T32 Cancer Control Research Training Program.
August 22, 2024
Alumna Wendy Nembhard, PhD, MPH, FACE, voted as the new incoming president-elect of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER.) As president-elect, Nembhard serves on the Executive Committee for SER, which hosts the nation's oldest epidemiology society.
August 22, 2024
A 2020 press release from the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that “every move counts towards better health”, suggesting that 5 million deaths per year could be averted if physical activity increased throughout the globe. Offering a new perspective and published in June’s open access journal of The Lancet Global Health is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Center for Health Equity (CHE) researcher, Andrea Ramirez Varela, PhD, MD, MPH, who poses a counter to the statement, that context is key.
August 21, 2024
This innovative program will begin admitting students for the spring 2025 semester, and is the first of its kind in Texas, as well as the only degree program in Texas certified by the Compliance Certification Board (CCB).
August 20, 2024
Sandra Ramirez, a student in Total Worker Health® (TWH) at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, was appointed to the Radiation Advisory Board by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The Board advises the state of Texas on radiation issues and reviews the rules, policies, and programs of state agencies that regulate radiation.
August 20, 2024
Brett Perkison, MD, MPH, is leading a new study to evaluate the effectiveness of cooling vests in protecting construction workers from heat stress, part of a broader effort to develop better practices for protecting at-risk workers from heat-related illness.
August 19, 2024
This partnership aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to pursue successful careers in public service, particularly in health and human services.
