Assistant Professor Chelsea Liu, PhD, has been awarded a $20,000 pilot grant from the UTHealth Houston Institute on Aging.
Alumna Melissa Lopez Varon, PhD, MS, has built her career at the intersection of cancer prevention and global health. Her path into public health began when she recognized the urgent need for multidisciplinary teams to work beyond traditional clinical expertise.
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.
November 23, 2022
Joanna Moore will graduate next May with an MD/MPH, a degree program she has been completing while also continuing her service in the military and raising her two daughters.
November 21, 2022
Fernandez returns home to the border to serve and grow
November 20, 2022
Taylor Crawford, a first year DrPH student in the Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences department. She is a Gates Millennium Scholar representing Native Forward, and is a member of the Chahta (Choctaw) Nation* of Oklahoma.
November 17, 2022
The CHPPR e-Learning program Project STOP is a smoking cessation program for health care providers. As one of the aims of this project, the team designed a smoking cessation smartphone application, DECISION-t (D-t), will help providers make quicker, better decisions about smoking cessation treatment approaches for their patients.
November 16, 2022
Smoking rates among adults in the United States have fallen precipitously since the first Great American Smokeout was organized in San Francisco in 1977, falling from over 33% then, to less than 12.5% today. Yet cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the country. UTHealth Houston School of Public Health researchers are developing new and intriguing techniques, utilizing mobile health technology, to help smokers quit.
November 15, 2022
After two years and hundreds of thousands of calls to residents, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health wrapped up its COVID-19 contact tracing program in San Antonio at the end of September. The project was a partnership with the City of San Antonio’s Metropolitan Health department.
November 11, 2022
Endowments are a poignant reminder to faculty members of the importance of their roles and responsibilities in academics and research. Donors fund these endowments, traditionally where they get their namesake, and they are used to support faculty's particular research interest. This honor elevates leaders in the health science community, creating a high-caliber setting in which to thrive.
October 31, 2022
UTHealth Houston is leading efforts to close the “research-to-practice” gap with the launch of the UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science.
October 31, 2022
Asha Kapadia, PhD, and Kay Dunn, PhD, were trailblazers who excelled academically and professionally, emerging as role models in the male-dominated field of biostatistics.
October 28, 2022
The Project HOMES (Housing for Opioid MAR Expanded Services) study is working with local community partners across Texas to operate and evaluate state-certified, no cost, recovery residences for people who used opioids and are taking buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone to recover.
