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Adriana Cardenas and Edith Davila (left to right.)

Health Impact in Motion: How Two Community Health Workers Are Changing Lives

Community Health Workers (CHWs) form a critical component of the public health workforce.

Bridging the Gap: CHWs at the Center of Care Coordination and System Change

Bridging the Gap: CHWs at the Center of Care Coordination and System Change

Rosalia Guerrero, MBA, CHWI, Director of Vulnerable Populations for the Texas Epidemic Public Health Institute (TEPHI) and senior project manager at the Center for Health Equity (CHE), attended the “Community Health Workers Association Conference 2025: Care Coordination in Challenging Times” conference earlier this year.

Ami Sedani, PhD

Researchers Spur New Efforts to Ensure Equitable Access to Colorectal Cancer Screenings

Researchers examine a pivotal opportunity in detecting and preventing early-onset colorectal cancer.

A MAGIC district partner helping lead an in-school training session.

CHPPR Researchers Expand School-Based Physical Activity Program to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children

MAGIC (Movement for Academic Growth In Classrooms) aims to help schools better integrate physical activity throughout the school day to reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors that can often start early in life.


CHPPR Partners with Texas Health Centers to Implement a Healthy Heart Ambassador Program

CHPPR Partners with Texas Health Centers to Implement a Healthy Heart Ambassador Program

October 27, 2022

The Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research partners with Texas health centers like South Texas Rural Health Services, Inc. to promote the use of the Healthy Heart Ambassador and Self-Measured Blood Pressure programs to help identify, treat and manage high blood pressure and reduce risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. 


UTHealth Houston researchers begin five-year study into effectiveness and safety of whole blood transfusion

Bags of donated blood before a transfusion, sitting on a table during a surgery

October 24, 2022

Funded by the National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the “Trauma Resuscitation with Group O Whole Blood Or Products” (TROOP) trial will enroll 1,200 patients at 12 trauma centers across the United States, to compare whole blood transfusions to blood component therapy, the current standard in trauma transfusions. Enrollment for TROOP will begin in spring 2023.

 


The Buzz on Diwali

The Buzz on Diwali

October 24, 2022

Diwali – which officially starts on October 22 – is an important and popular five-day festival celebrated by millions of people in India, South Asia, and other parts of the world. If you are unfamiliar with Diwali, read on to find out more.




UTHealth Houston, Baylor College of Medicine to collaborate on new HIV Implementation Science Consultation Hub

UTHealth Houston, Baylor College of Medicine to collaborate on new HIV Implementation Science Consultation Hub

October 7, 2022

The UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science and the Texas Developmental Center for AIDS Research (Texas D-CFAR), a collaboration between Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth Houston and Texas Biomedical Research Institute, recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health to establish the new Texas Implementation Science Hub to End HIV (Texas IS Hub).






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