This virtual, dietician-led program teaches basic cooking skills and techniques in order to improve diet and cooking behaviors and lower weight and blood sugar levels.
A new study led by Augusto César Ferreira De Moraes, PhD, assistant professor in Epidemiology, examined the reliability and validity of questionnaires assessing family food environments in adolescents and children.
A new study by CHPPR researchers looks at the connection between Whole-of-School physical activity opportunities and student academic performance and physical fitness.
Michael Lemke, PhD, became one of the newest faculty members at the San Antonio location of the school this past year and his research contributes to the work of the Southwest Center for Environmental and Occupational Health. His research areas focus on occupational health hazards for truck drivers who tend to have exceptionally poor health and safety outcomes.
September 11, 2024
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health’s Center for Health Care Data, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston, and UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry have announced a new collaboration to demonstrate the value of the Texas All Payor Claims Database, a state-legislated resource.
September 5, 2024
A five-year, $5 million grant will allow researchers from UTHealth Houston and The University of Texas at Austin to test how community-level interventions can improve health and reduce disparities in low-income communities in Central Texas.
September 5, 2024
Assistant Professor Kevin Rix, PhD, MPH, at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Dallas, collaborated with a team of researchers to analyze drowning incidents of children aged 0-17 at a Texas Level 1 pediatric trauma center.
August 28, 2024
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health is introducing a new Master of Social Work/ Master of Public Health (MSSW/MPH) dual degree program in collaboration with The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).
August 28, 2024
Dr. Derek Craig, a new faculty member in the UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science and the School of Public Health, is a School of Public Health alumnus and a former postdoctoral fellow of UTHealth Houston’s NCI T32 Cancer Control Research Training Program.
August 22, 2024
Alumna Wendy Nembhard, PhD, MPH, FACE, voted as the new incoming president-elect of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER.) As president-elect, Nembhard serves on the Executive Committee for SER, which hosts the nation's oldest epidemiology society.
August 22, 2024
A 2020 press release from the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that “every move counts towards better health”, suggesting that 5 million deaths per year could be averted if physical activity increased throughout the globe. Offering a new perspective and published in June’s open access journal of The Lancet Global Health is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Center for Health Equity (CHE) researcher, Andrea Ramirez Varela, PhD, MD, MPH, who poses a counter to the statement, that context is key.
August 21, 2024
This innovative program will begin admitting students for the spring 2025 semester, and is the first of its kind in Texas, as well as the only degree program in Texas certified by the Compliance Certification Board (CCB).
August 20, 2024
Sandra Ramirez, a student in Total Worker Health® (TWH) at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, was appointed to the Radiation Advisory Board by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The Board advises the state of Texas on radiation issues and reviews the rules, policies, and programs of state agencies that regulate radiation.
August 20, 2024
Brett Perkison, MD, MPH, is leading a new study to evaluate the effectiveness of cooling vests in protecting construction workers from heat stress, part of a broader effort to develop better practices for protecting at-risk workers from heat-related illness.
