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Media Relations

Call 713-500-3030 if you would like to schedule an interview with faculty, students, or staff.

Press Releases

Style Guidelines:

In print publications and on the web, the appropriate references are:

  • UTHealth Houston
    • Second Reference: ‘UTHealth Houston’ or ‘the university’
  • Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
    • Second Reference: ‘Center for Healthy Living’ or ‘the Center’
  • UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin
    • Second Reference: ‘School of Public Health in Austin’ or ‘Austin location’

Note: UTHealth Houston has no space between “UT” and “Health.”

Quick Facts:

The Center was founded in

2006

29

The Center comprises 29 faculty members.

16.29 million children and families

As of the 2022-2023 school year, the Center directly reached an estimated 16.29 million children and families through school-based health promotion research projects and interventions.

The Center has experts across eight topics:

  • school-based health programs;
  • nutrition, food access, obesity
  • family & child health
  • tobacco, e-cigarette
  • physical activity
  • health policy
  • heat safety
  • road safety

Media Inquiries:

AUSTIN

Kirsten Handler
Communication Specialist
Email: Kirsten.Handler@uth.tmc.edu

Ali Linan
Communication Assistant
Email: alexandra.v.linan@uth.tmc.edu

HOUSTON

Deborah Mann Lake
Director of Media Relations and Social Media
Office: 713-500-3304
Email: Deborah.M.Lake@uth.tmc.edu

Jeannette Sanchez
Manager of Media Relations
Office: 713-500-3042
Email: Jeannette.Sanchez@uth.tmc.edu

Sydney Lowther
Media Relations Specialist
Office: 713-500-3173
Email: Sydney.H.Lowther@uth.tmc.edu

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