University of Texas School of Public Health – Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living

About Us

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Reuel A. Stallones Building in the Texas Medical Center in Houston

At six campuses across Texas, The University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH) works to improve the state of public health in Texas every day. Each of our campuses is strategically placed to meet the public health education and research needs of the diverse populations across Texas. UTSPH is the only school of public health in the nation with regional campuses.

The main campus, located in the heart of Houston’s Texas Medical Center, offers students unmatched opportunities for research and employment. Five regional campuses in Austin, Brownsville, Dallas, El Paso and San Antonio each have their own faculty and research specialties. Students can attend class at any of the six campuses via Interactive Television (ITV).

UTSPH is one of six schools of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), the most comprehensive academic health system in The University of Texas System and the U.S. Gulf Coast region. In addition to UTSPH, UTHealth is home to schools of biomedical informatics, biomedical sciences, dentistry, medicine and nursing. It also includes a psychiatric hospital, multiple institutes and centers, a growing network of clinics and outreach programs in education and care throughout the region.

The school is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) and the university if accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living

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SPOTLIGHT

8th Annual Michael & Susan Dell Lectureship in Child Health

The 2014 Lectureship will feature author and award-winning researcher Brian Wansink, PhD of Cornell University. He is the lead author of over 150 academic articles and books on eating behavior, including the best-selling Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think.

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required and seating is limited.
Click here to learn more and register for the event.

OUR CENTER

We are an international leader in conducting research and providing programs that promote healthy living for children, their families and communities. Our work fosters improved health behaviors among youth, influences policy and environmental change to support healthy living, and advances professional education and community service.

WHO WE ARE

Our leaders are well known as global experts in the study of childhood obesity and health behaviors. Not only are they dedicated to their research, they’re equally devoted to the kids, families, and communities they serve.

Click here to learn more about WHO WE ARE

FROM THE BLOG

How Community Supported Agriculture helps you commit to eating healthfully

“Eat your greens!”—the words we dreaded as children. We wanted the food we saw on TV: cereals with exciting cartoon mascots, pudding cups we could mix the sprinkles into ourselves. Vegetables were the sometimes boring, sometimes alien lumps of green we had to choke down. Or at least hide in our napkins…. Read more >>