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UTHealth Houston Receives $2.9 Million CDC Award to Expand Colorectal Cancer Screening Across Texas

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.
Read more UTHealth Houston Receives $2.9 Million CDC Award to Expand Colorectal Cancer Screening Across Texas
Spotlight: Yesmeena Shmaitelly, Learning Medicine Beyond the Clinic Through Food Is Medicine Research

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.
Read more Spotlight: Yesmeena Shmaitelly, Learning Medicine Beyond the Clinic Through Food Is Medicine Research
The Swaddle Study: Advancing Black Maternal Health Through Community Collaboration

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..
Read more The Swaddle Study: Advancing Black Maternal Health Through Community Collaboration
A Message from Dean Eric Boerwinkle, PhD: 2026 Outlook on Public Health

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.
Read more A Message from Dean Eric Boerwinkle, PhD: 2026 Outlook on Public Health
Researchers develop temperature-controlled gene-editing method to potentially improve efforts to control disease-carrying insects

New research presents promising results from an innovative technique that utilizes temperature control to genetically engineer sterile populations of insects, such as mosquitoes responsible for diseases like malaria, dengue, and other vector-borne illnesses.
Read more Researchers develop temperature-controlled gene-editing method to potentially improve efforts to control disease-carrying insects
Researchers develop temp-controlled gene method to curb insects

New research presents promising results from an innovative technique that utilizes temperature control to genetically engineer sterile populations of insects, such as mosquitoes responsible for diseases like malaria, dengue, and other vector-borne illnesses.
Read more Researchers develop temp-controlled gene method to curb insects
Alumna selected as an ASPPH/CDC Tribal Health Department Fellow

Alumna Elizabeth Frost, PhD, MPH, MSW, was recently selected as an Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)/Centers for Disease Control Tribal Health Department Fellow.
Read more Alumna selected as an ASPPH/CDC Tribal Health Department Fellow
UTHealth Houston awarded $25 million to expand recovery housing for Texans recovering from opioid use disorder

Researchers with UTHealth Houston have been awarded $25 million by the Texas Opioid Abatement Fund Council to expand and enhance recovery housing resources across Texas for those recovering from opioid use disorder. The grant aims to strengthen recovery support systems and help individuals transition toward independent living while maintaining long-term recovery.
Read more UTHealth Houston awarded $25 million to expand recovery housing for Texans recovering from opioid use disorder
Building on Pandemic Lessons

A new publication in the Journal of General Internal Medicine calls on healthcare leaders to preserve one of the most important lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic: the power of organizational culture in sustaining continuous learning and improvement across health systems.
Read more Building on Pandemic Lessons
Advancing Cancer Prevention Through Epidemiology

Manali Desai, MBBS, MPH, recently earned her PhD in Epidemiology from UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, marking a milestone in a career dedicated to advancing population health.
Read more Advancing Cancer Prevention Through Epidemiology

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Jan 26 2026 Jan 26, 2026

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Yue Xu, MPH, DrPH Candidate: Navigating Infertility Treatment

3:00:00 PM - 5:00:00 PM
Microsoft Team
Jan 28 2026 Jan 28, 2026

Dissertation Proposal Defence by Qi Xue, MPH: Investigating Associations Btwn Food Insecurity, FI Interventions, & Adolescent MH

10:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM
SPH Building
Jan 28 2026 Jan 28, 2026

Advancing Public Health with Satellite Data: Spatiotemporal Approach for Environmental Monitoring and Action

11:30:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM
1200 Pressler Street, RAS Building, 1st floor Auditorium
Jan 28 2026 Jan 28, 2026

Implementing the Age-Friendly Health System CMS Measure w/ Dr. Kevin High

12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM
Hermann Conference Center - Ground Floor - 6411 Fannin St. Houston, TX 77030
Jan 28 2026 Jan 28, 2026

Epidemiology Seminar

12:00:00 PM - 12:50:00 PM
by Teams in the MS-Teams Calendar
Jan 29 2026 Jan 29, 2026

Beyond January: Mocktails for Healthy Habits That Last

12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM
Virtual - Microsoft Teams
Jan 29 2026 Jan 29, 2026

Special Lecture: "Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship across The University of Texas System"

5:00:00 PM - 5:50:00 PM
Virtual - Microsoft Teams
Feb 09 2026 Feb 09, 2026

8th Annual Symposium on Aging Research

8:00:00 AM - 5:00:00 PM
Brown Foundation Institute Of Molecular Medicine, 1825 Pressler St, Houston, TX 77030
Feb 12 2026 Feb 12, 2026

Dissertation Proposal Defense Holly Garza, DVM, MPH: Research in Pediatric Traumatic Injury Using Healthcare Administrative Data

12:00:00 PM - 1:30:00 PM
SPH Austin Regional Campus, Room 532, and via Teams
Feb 13 2026 Feb 13, 2026

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Geetanjali Naik, MD, MPH; Incidence Trends & Surveillance Adherence of Melanoma

1:30:00 PM - 3:00:00 PM
Teams
Feb 21 2026 Feb 21, 2026

2026 Child & Adolescent Mental Health Update Conference: Comprehensive Autism Care Across the Spectrum

8:00:00 AM - 4:30:00 PM
TMC Innovation Factory
Feb 25 2026 Feb 25, 2026

GET PHIT Internship Program & Professional Development Information Session

12:00:00 PM - 1:00:00 PM
Teams & In-person (Brownsville, TX)
Feb 28 2026 Feb 28, 2026

2026 Healthcare Innovation Case Competition

9:00:00 AM - 4:00:00 PM
McGovern Medical School

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