Alumni Highlight: Cheryl Camin Murray, JD
February 7, 2023
School of Public Health Alumnus, Cheryl Camin Murray, JD, to Serve as Dallas Bar Association President
News Archive
NIH awards $4M grant to study GLP-1 weight regain
A team of UTHealth Houston researchers has been awarded a five-year, $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify genetic markers that may contribute to weight gain after stopping GLP-1 medications.
Childhood obesity: How can it be avoided?
Welcome to “Ask the Expert,” a UTHealth Houston news series where our leading experts examine pressing health challenges. In this edition, we address child obesity to support Childhood Obesity Awareness Month.
UTHealth Houston database fills gap in long COVID surveillance
UTHealth Houston researchers have found that long COVID diagnoses varied significantly across populations and variant periods over a two-year period, revealing patterns that could help public health agencies and health systems better target follow-up and care, monitor long-term impacts, and allocate healthcare resources where they’re needed most.
HIV and AIDS: Detection, prevention, and treatment
Welcome to Ask the Expert, a UTHealth Houston news series in which leading experts examine pressing health challenges. In this edition, we address National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day.
Common genetic variants associated with BMI in middle-aged people result in a higher risk for cardiovascular disease in people born after 1960
February 7, 2023
The researchers analyzed four birth cohorts spanning three generations of the Framingham Heart Study, starting from birth before 1932 and birth after 1960. Their work concluded that there was a larger effect of a higher genetic predisposition to obesity, as modeled by a genetic risk score, on BMI in people born more recently compared to almost a century ago.
Bob Woodruff Foundation Awards Grant to Jack Tsai, PhD, to provide financial counseling program for at-risk veterans
February 3, 2023
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health has received a Bob Woodruff Foundation grant for a Recovery-Oriented Money Management (ROMM) program. Jack Tsai, PhD, a professor and regional dean in San Antonio, will be the principal investigator of the eight-week community-based program for homeless and at-risk veterans.
Estrella Welcomed by School of Public Health and Brownsville Community
February 2, 2023
Spotlight on Mayra Estrella, PhD, assistant professor in the department of epidemiology, human genetics, and environmental sciences at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Brownsville, TX
Amerigroup provides $50,000 scholarship to address Texas’ rural healthcare needs
February 1, 2023
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health has received $50,000 in scholarship funds from Amerigroup Texas, one of the state’s largest coordinators of health care benefits, for San Antonio-based students who are committed to working in rural health.
Testa on, "The Contribution of Criminal Justice Systems to Reproductive Health Disparities" in the American Journal of Public Health
February 1, 2023
Alexander Testa, PhD, assistant professor at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in San Antonio reviews recent research showing that policing is failing to protect and serve Black communities, and that collaboration between the public health community and law enforcement is important for creating more equitable policing.
San José Clinic Partners with CHPPR to Prevent Diabetes in Underserved Communities
February 1, 2023
San José Clinic provides a wide variety of primary and specialty healthcare services to uninsured and underserved communities in Houston. The Clinic has partnered with CHPPR to provide Diabetes Prevention Program referrals and with the UTHealth Houston Cizik School of Nursing to offer opportunities to Doctor of Nursing Practice students.
New clinic program adds colorful bites for brighter futures
January 30, 2023
Have you ever tried a chocolate tomato or purchased a vibrant pink dragon fruit?
These exotic-sounding fruits and vegetables are part of a unique pilot study at two UT Physicians clinics that offers prescriptions for free produce in an effort to improve dietary behaviors in children.
Victoria Solis, MPH, guided by family's legacy of community service in pursuit of public health
January 19, 2023
Solis was inspired by her parents and teachers to pursue a career where she could combine her passions for public health, community service and education.
The Center for Health Care Data announces awardees for Research Pilot Award
January 9, 2023
Through an interdisciplinary format, each submission awarded is a catalyst for the exploration of methods to improve or analyze issues through electronic health records, and to serve as models for future research.