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.
August 9, 2025
Aodong Mei, a PhD student at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, has partnered with her mentor, Yun Hang, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, to win the NASA Future Investigators in Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) award.
August 8, 2025
The Center for Health Equity (CHE) in collaboration The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has been awarded $74,970 to evaluate the impact of the Brighter Bites program.
August 7, 2025
The Graduate Archer Fellowship Program offers outstanding graduate students from across the University of Texas System a unique opportunity to live, learn, and work in Washington, DC.
August 5, 2025
Despite Fort Bend County’s reputation as one of Texas’ most prosperous regions, a comprehensive new health assessment reveals significant gaps in access to mental health services and to prenatal care, affecting thousands of residents across this rapidly growing, diverse community.
August 1, 2025
Epidemiology Associate Professor Theresa Ochoa, MD, a distinguished pediatrician and global health researcher, has been awarded the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre de Léopold by His Majesty King Philippe of Belgium.
July 30, 2025
A nationally recognized leader in the field of biostatistics and data science, Samiran Ghosh PhD, steps into his new role as Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science
July 25, 2025
On July 2nd, Lukas Richards, MD, a resident physician from UTHealth Houston’s Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) Residency program, presented on behalf of the Docside Clinic: Connecting Docs to Docks.
July 23, 2025
Congratulations to the doctoral students who graduated from the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences this summer!
July 21, 2025
Jiaming Liang, an assistant professor at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in San Antonio, has been awarded the Regional Award (North America) for Excellence in Publication in Behavioral Medicine by the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. His work, published in 2023, was recognized for its outstanding contribution to the field and will be formally honored at the upcoming 2025 International Congress of Behavioral Medicine in Vienna, Austria.
July 18, 2025
Alumna Angela Branch-Vital, PhD, has been named the Inaugural Dean of the Prairie View A&M University School of Public and Allied Health.
