Leading the Way: CHW Early Adopter Learning Cohort
April 25, 2024
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NIH awards $4M grant to study GLP-1 weight regain
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.
Childhood obesity: How can it be avoided?
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.
UTHealth Houston database fills gap in long COVID surveillance
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.
HIV and AIDS: Detection, prevention, and treatment
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.
Strengthening Community Health Worker workforce in Greater Houston
April 25, 2024
In partnership with the City of Houston Health Department, the Coalition for Connected Care launched an initiative to strengthen the region’s Community Health Worker (CHW) workforce in 2022.
From C-Suite to Classroom: Leticia Flores
April 16, 2024
Meet the Class of 2024
Students in the first cohort of the executive-style MPH in Healthcare Management program in El Paso will graduate in May 2024. Celebrate with us as we share their journeys and explore how they are making an impact on their community.?
Nearly $4 Million Awarded for Adolescent Cancer Research
April 12, 2024
Assistant Professor Paula Cuccaro, PhD; Professor Ross Shegog, PhD; and Associate Professor Lara Savas, PhD, were awarded $3,996,163 from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to develop adolescent cancer prevention research. These awards were part of a $100 million grant to continue Texas's initiatives to build cancer research and represent the country's most significant state initiative to combat cancer.
School of Public Health Ranked Top 25 Best Public Health School by U.S. News
April 10, 2024
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health has achieved top 25 ranking among 209 graduate schools of public health, according to the U.S. News & World Report.
Among publicly-funded institutions offering graduate-level degrees in public health, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health ranks No. 9 nationally, and holds its position as No. 1 in Texas
Brighter Bites: A Model for Community-Academic Partnership to Improve Health
April 4, 2024
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health Center for Healthy Communities (CHeC) and Brighter Bites have recently hit the national spotlight through two initiatives- the Harvard Agribusiness Seminar and the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities.
PhD Candidate Explores Link Between Protein Intake and Health Outcomes
March 29, 2024
Ji Yun Tark, MPH, a PhD candidate in epidemiology at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, is investigating the associations between protein consumption and hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD). For Tark, the complex link between nutrition and health outcomes is critical for public health research.
CHPPR and Healthy Futures of Texas Collaborate to Evaluate Impact of Opt-In Sexual Health Education Policy in Texas
March 27, 2024
CHPPR investigators and Healthy Futures of Texas collaborated to conduct a first-of-its-kind evaluation of a diverse, bipartisan sample of Texas school representatives to determine the impacts of Texas’s new sex education opt-in law, which requires written parental consent for sex education or abuse prevention instruction.
The Buzz on Genome Editing
March 25, 2024
Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes such as malaria, Zika, and dengue pose significant global public health concerns. Researchers at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health are responding by launching a novel mosquito vivarium to develop genetic strategies for controlling these diseases.
Study assessing elementary school teachers’ health outcomes and dietary behaviors published
March 22, 2024
The study found that 32 percent of teachers reported being food insecure, indicating a chronic lack of access to enough food in their household. Teachers consumed less than recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fiber, dairy, and calcium but consumed more sugar than daily recommendations.