Community Health Workers (CHWs) form a critical component of the public health workforce.
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.
Researchers examine a pivotal opportunity in detecting and preventing early-onset colorectal cancer.
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.
September 19, 2022
This collaboration between researchers from UTHealth School of Public Health, along with the UAMS, BCM, and Texas Department of State Health Services, determined that hypospadias, which affects 1 out of 200 boys born in the U.S., co-occurs with CHDs.
September 8, 2022
Researchers at the UTHealth CHPPR are working alongside community partners to expand the recovery support peer specialist workforce in Texas, addressing a shortage of peer substance use disorder workers in the state.
August 22, 2022
While the paper utilized pre-COVID-19 data, the researchers say their findings suggest that COVID-era gig workers will likely see an even greater increase in poor overall health and psychological distress.
August 10, 2022
Those administering vaccines should address hesitancies some may have by holding “respectful conversations...address any misinformation; share the benefits of vaccines, curate honest information, and rebuild the trust that has been lost in science and public health,” says Paula Cuccaro, PhD.
July 29, 2022
The “Examining implementation needs and readiness for mental, social, and emotional health programming at The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston” project aims to improve youth’s mental, social, and emotional health by assisting the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston (BGCGH) in implementing and scaling-up evidence-based programming.
July 26, 2022
First Mile Care is a company dedicated to chronic disease care and prevention that works with physicians and communities throughout the U.S. to reduce prediabetes rates. The Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research (CHPPR) partners with First Mile Care to pilot a diabetes prevention program, the Sustainable Culturally Adapted Nutrition (SCAN) program, in Houston, TX.
July 22, 2022
“We’re there to get a pulse on the population’s health behaviors so that we can adjust our healthcare programs to responds the needs of the LGBTQ+ population,” says Irene Tami-Maury, DMD, DrPH, MSc assistant professor with the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences.
July 21, 2022
Bijal Balasubramanian, MBBS, PhD, Professor and Dallas Campus Dean of The University of Texas Health Science Center Houston School of Public Health and co-Director of the UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science was recently appointed to the “Health of Primary Care Scorecard” committee. Alongside her peers, Balasubramanian will lend her expertise to building the foundation of what the future of quality primary care will look like across the country.
July 19, 2022
A collaboration between CHPPR’s Colorectal Cancer Control and Prevention (CRCCP) and Organizational Readiness projects aims to help federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) improve their colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) rates. By performing needs and readiness assessments with the FQHCs, the teams can identify factors that influence the implementation of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) that could increase CRCS rates, allowing for more effective implementation with improved results.
July 19, 2022
The upcoming workshop will focus on the relevance and impact of power within communities in the context of the intersection of obesity with structural racism, bias and stigma, and health communication.
