UTHealth Houston has been awarded more than $2.9 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue and expand a five?year initiative focused on increasing colorectal cancer screening, follow?up, and treatment across Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in Texas.
Since May 2025, second-year student at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, Yesmeena Shmaitelly, has played a pivotal role in advancing the Harris Health Food is Medicine (FIM) study, a multi-phased project providing fresh produce and nutrition education to at-risk pregnant mothers in the Greater Houston region.
The Swaddle Study, led by Serwaa S. Omowale, PhD, LMSW, MPH, assistant professor in Management, Policy, and Community Health and Center for Health Equity (CHE) faculty, is a federally supported, groundbreaking community-based research project designed to address long-standing racial inequities in maternal and infant health outcomes among Black families in the U.S..
As we look forward to the year ahead, I invite and encourage you to renew your commitment and passion for the field of public health, and to not lose sight of the importance of our work.
May 29, 2020
Three University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health students have been selected for UTHealthLeads, a new student fellowship program designed to develop leaders in health care.
May 25, 2020
Andrew Braun, a student in the MD/MPH dual-degree program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health in San Antonio and Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio, has received the 2020 United States Public Health Service Excellence in Public Health Award.
May 1, 2020
Joshua Yudkin, MA, MPH, a doctoral student in epidemiology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health in Dallas, has been selected for a Fulbright award.
April 15, 2020
Three University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health students have been selected for UTHealthLeads, a new student fellowship program designed to develop leaders in health care.
January 1, 2020
Stories linked in UTHealth School of Public Health social media platforms.
December 10, 2019
UTHealth School of Public Health and the University of Texas Permian Basin (UTPB) College of Business have partnered to provide graduate students with the opportunity to earn a Graduate Certificate in Public Health while simultaneously earning a Master of Business Administration (MBA) beginning Spring 2020.
November 29, 2019
RAB members are the state’s advisors on all radiation issues. The governor appoints members who normally serve for a term of 6 years. Dr. Pate is one of 10 Texas professionals appointed to this board.
November 21, 2019
Anabel Rodriguez is the recipient of 2019 Individual Health Literacy Hero award from the Bexar County Health Collaborative and the 2019 Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science Community Engagement Hero Award–Outstanding Student.
November 13, 2019
Alexis Sims is a health promotion and health education doctoral student at the Houston campus.
June 26, 2019
The Southwest Center for Occupational Safety and Environmental Health (SWCOEH) at UTHealth School of Public Health has been officially approved as an affiliate of the CDC/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Total Worker Health program, strengthening a partnership spanning more than 40 years.
