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Genetic variants can simultaneously increase BMI and lower cholesterol risk, UTHealth Houston researchers find

Individuals with a genetic profile that puts them at risk of obesity may not necessarily be at risk of having high cholesterol, UTHealth Houston researchers discovered.

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$2.8M Grant Renewal for Groundbreaking Blood Coagulation Research in Collaboration with UNC

UTHealth Houston to Lead a $4M Study on Heart Failure in Hispanic Americans

New Genetic Discovery Sheds Light on Rare Heart and Organ Positioning Disorders

New research suggests the risk of Mendelian diseases in consanguinity populations

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Center for Health Care Seminar Series: All-Payor Claims Data on Texas Dementia

Thesis Presentation: Associations between neighborhood opportunity and healthy eating among 8th and 11th grade students in Texas

Occupational Health Journal Club: Using Machine Learning to Prevent Workplace Injuries

Dissertation Defense by Jenny M. Rowlands, MPH: A Landscape Analysis and Construct Assessment of Internet-Based Patient Education

Dissertation Defense by Mengyu Zhang, MS: Genome-wide Association Test for Gene by Environment Interaction Study

Thesis Presentation; Amani Saleh, MPH: Teacher Nutrition Knowledge and Healthy Cooking self-efficacy for Elementary School Teacher

LinkedIn Lab & Headshots for Students and Alumni

Dissertation Defense by Baneen Sheriff: Financial Toxicity Among Adults with ADRD in the U.S.

Dissertation Defense by Erica Reyes, MS: Dissemination and implementation of the StrongPeople Strong Bodies™ program in Texas

Center for Infectious Diseases Lecture with Runzi Le, MPH (In Person and TEAMS Link)

Dissertation Defense by Wenting Liu, MPH: Doubly Robust Imputation Method for A Censored Predictor

Dissertation Defense by Samantha Levy, MS: Methods to Account for Time Varying Effects in Multiple Intervention Stepped Wedge Des.

Dissertation Defense by Jessica Rodriguez, MPH: The Impact of SARS-CoV02 Infection on Markers of Biological Aging Among Mexican

Film Screening: Hotel of 10,000 Stars | KHÁCH SAN NGÀN SAO

Dissertation Proposal Defense by Dionibe Some, MPH: Public Health Considerations Associated with a Direct Potable Reuse system.

Dissertation Defense by Kaiya Farris, MS: Patient-Provider Race Concordance Intention in Women Searching for an Obstetric Provider

National Public Health Week: Conversation with Dr. Eric Boerwinkle

National Public Health Week: Ready. Set. Yoga!

Dissertation Defense by Bohong Guo, MPH: Efficient multi-trait genetic association studies for high-dimensional brain imaging data

National Public Health Week: Practice Day

Dissertation Defense by Yesmel King, MA: Understanding Protective Health Behaviors Among Latino Day Laborers During COVID-19

Thesis Presentation by Miranda Kapfhammer, BS: Assessing physical function trajectories in CAR-T Therapy

National Public Health Week: Community Networking Hour

34th Annual Steele Lecture featuring William E. Secor, PhD

Dissertation Defense by Tia Thomas: Rank-based Information Borrowing from Subgroups and Surrogate Outcomes in Survival Analysis

Dissertation Defense by Valerie Valenzuela, MBA, : Assessment: Role of Employment in the Relationship Between Violence And Wellbei

National Public Health Week: SPH Day of Service

15th Annual SIC Crawfish Boil 2026

Spring 2026 Fleming Center Healthcare Management Case Competition

Reuel A. Stallones Memorial Endowed Lecture & Building Commemoration