Researchers at UTHealth Houston were awarded an 18-month, $1.3 million grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees to develop a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) platform to improve care amongst older adults.
October 26, 2023
"The biggest advantage of our School is that we have many excellent professors. All the professors I have met have been enthusiastic about teaching students and are always willing to help when there are difficulties in studying," said Chung,
October 23, 2023
Professor Robert Morgan, PhD, has been awarded a $1 million grant to assist in conducting a clinical sleep study trial to improve nursing home residents' sleep care for adults with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias (ADRD). The study will test an innovative sleep improvement intervention on residents aged 50 and over, incorporating targeted approaches for assisting nursing home administration and staff in successful implementation.
October 16, 2023
Heidi Russell, MD, PhD, professor of the Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health, has been appointed Director of the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health's Dual Degree Programs.
October 16, 2023
Creating Healthy Actions through Technology (CHAT) is a mobile app-based pilot intervention designed to motivate and encourage physical activity and healthy diet among African American breast cancer survivors. This program has the potential to address disparities in the health outcomes and availability of resources for an underserved populations of cancer survivors.
October 15, 2023
This initiative will enable us to improve the health of our littlest Texans by improving the health of their mothers and their support systems, including fathers and other family members.” said Deanna Hoelscher, PhD, professor and regional dean of UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin.
October 12, 2023
This fall, the center will introduce the initiative “Produce Rx in High-Risk Pregnant Mothers at Harris Health,” which will provide pregnant mothers with a Produce Prescription Program (FoodRx) to analyze the impact of healthy food on gestational weight gain, birth outcomes, and improve care for low-income mothers in Harris County.
October 4, 2023
Susana Zavala is proud to be a Mexican-American, with an emphasis on the Mexican. While her physical home has always been on Texas soil, her cultural home is in Mexico where she spent most of her time during her formative years.
October 2, 2023
As one of just six sites in the country chosen for a new consortium of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Brownsville will use multi-omics in combination with environmental, epidemiologic, and clinical data, along with social determinants of health, to study non-alcoholic and non-viral liver disease in Hispanics/Latinos.
October 2, 2023
"Having a background in public health has helped me to talk to patients about the history and importance of vaccines, childhood infections, and preventative health," said Days.
October 2, 2023
The Vales+ Tú Salud project uses a community-based, “corner-level” approach to deliver an intervention to encourage Latino day laborers to prevent COVID-19 at street corners and other locations where they wait for work.