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.
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.
May 5, 2021
Dr. Baojiang Chen, Dr. Anna Wilkinson and Travis Teague, MPH, CPH, are the recipients of the 2021 Teaching Awards. Recipients are nominated and voted on by the student body.
May 4, 2021
Two representatives of The Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (SWCOEH) were featured presenters at the 2021 American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC Virtual 2021) this week.
May 4, 2021
Maria Elena Rodriguez is a Senior Administrative Coordinator at the Brownsville Regional Campus. This month, Rodriguez sits down and talks to us about her life’s journey and how it lead to UTHealth School of Public Health at Brownsville.
April 30, 2021
Silvia Garcia, a community health worker and Brownsville resident, shares her own family’s experience with COVID-19 and her thoughts about the hope provided by the vaccine.
April 30, 2021
Rosandra Daywalker, MD was awarded a full scholarship to attend the 2021 American Occupational Health Conference. The AOHC, which will be held virtually May 2-5, is the premier professional meeting for physicians and other health professionals who have an interest in the fields of occupational and environmental medicine (OEM).
April 19, 2021
Elena Luna, MPH, CPH, is tackling chronic disease head on. Struggling to find funding for her work with the Latinx population, Elena applied to the state-wide Gunnin Fellowship and won.
April 12, 2021
Paola Vidal joined UTHealth School of Public Health at Brownsville in fall 2020 and is pursuing an MPH in Epidemiology. Vidal sat down to share her experience at the Brownsville campus during the pandemic and how it didn’t diminish her passion for public health.
April 2, 2021
Lori Boies, a student at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health in the online Epidemiology Master of Public Health program, conducted her practicum in fall 2020 remotely with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Texas Syndromic Surveillance System under Mr. Linc Allen.
March 25, 2021
Dr. Miryoung Lee says the people at the Brownsville campus are its greatest asset. “It was a big change moving from Ohio to Texas. I grew up near the mountains in South Korea, and always enjoyed being in the outdoors in Ohio as well, hiking and trail running in the forest, even in winter."
February 15, 2021
When Dianey Perez was growing up, she saw first had the contrasts between life in the Rio Grande Valley and life “up north” where she and her parents spent every spring and summer as migrant farmworkers.
