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UTHealth Houston Study Finds Diabetes Program Improves Depression Symptoms in Mexican Americans

UTHealth Houston Study Finds Diabetes Program Improves Depression Symptoms in Mexican Americans

A team of researchers from UTHealth Houston School of Public Health has found that Salud y Vida, a community-clinical diabetes program in the Rio Grande Valley, was linked to significant reductions in depression symptoms among low-income Mexican Americans living with type 2 diabetes. 

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.

Patient Empowerment and Engagement to Improve Chronic Illness, as Published in JAMA Network Open

Naik leads as senior author for work published in JAMA Network Open on,

May 4, 2022

Published in May of 2022 in the JAMA Network Open, the article “Comparison of Collaborative Goal Setting With Enhanced Education for Managing Diabetes-Associated Distress and Hemoglobin A1c Levels” was published, with contributions by Aanand Naik, MD, professor, and chair for the Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health as the senior investigator and corresponding author.




Alumni Feature: Fatima Frausto, MPH

Alumni Feature: Fatima Frausto, MPH, MPH

April 26, 2022

The SPH Career and Alumni Services is featuring alumni in the series called “From the Desks of SPH Alumni!” Alumni are invited to share 3 items, ideas, or elements that define their workspace and daily life as a public health professional.


Alumni Feature: Madison Wisdom, MPH

Alumni Feature: Madison Wisdom, MPH

April 25, 2022

The SPH Career and Alumni Services is featuring alumni in the series called “From the Desks of SPH Alumni!” Alumni are invited to share 3 items, ideas, or elements that define their workspace and daily life as a public health professional.


Alumni Feature: Jennifer Torres Jones, MPH

Alumni Feature: Jennifer Torres Jones, MPH

April 24, 2022

The SPH Career and Alumni Services is featuring alumni in the series called “From the Desks of SPH Alumni!” Alumni are invited to share 3 items, ideas, or elements that define their workspace and daily life as a public health professional.



CHPPR partners with non-profit REAL, Inc. to provide transportation services to vulnerable communities

A client boarding a REAL, Inc. shuttle.

April 19, 2022

REAL, Inc. is a non-profit organization that has worked with the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research on multiple projects, including the Trip for Salud y Vida program, which studied the integration of transportation into care for mental health. The organization is devoted to providing community-centered services to Seniors, people with disabilities, and other vulnerable communities in rural areas of South Texas.


Jones, et al. awarded $1.5 million grant funding from the U.S. Department of Defense

Eric Jones, Phd Head Shot

April 12, 2022

The project, “Response to Shocks and Hazards Associated with Climate” was selected as one of 17 recipients, developing comprehensive modeling of cultural transformations in dozens of societies over the last 200 years in response to shocks and hazards associated with climate in concert with Co-Principal Investigators from the Human Relations Area Files at Yale (Carol Ember), University of Tennessee Knoxville (Sergey Gavrilets) and Stanford University (Michele Gelfand).


Program receives $500,000 funding to assess a father’s role in the early childhood development of the brain

Program receives $500,000 funding to assess a father’s role in the early childhood development of the brain

April 6, 2022

Designed in partnership with a community advisory board to address gaps previously identified by the partners in father engagement, and to improve understanding of a father’s role in early brain development of their children. BSD intends to obtain an increased knowledge of brain health development in these critical early years by serving 125 males between the ages of 18-35 years of age, who are residents of Tyler, Texas currently expecting or have a child under 3 years of age.



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