April 2, 2024
Assistant Professor Jenil Patel, PhD, served as first author of a study that found an increased prevalence of work-related asthma among selected groups of healthcare professionals. The study was published in the January issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM).
February 8, 2024
Shannon Guillot-Wright and Lacy Davis of UTHealth Houston School of Public Health launched new fishermen research in Louisiana. The research is part of a $660K grant awarded to Guillot-Wright and her team from the Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention, and Education and CDC/NIOSH, “Addressing Health Disparities among Commercial Fishermen by Implementing a Community-based Intervention.”
January 23, 2024
Wei-Chung Su, PhD, CIH, traveled oversees to present novel findings from Mobile Aerosol Lung Deposition Apparatus (MALDA), a fully replicated human airway system.
January 23, 2024
Shafali Patel, a master of public health student, is a Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (SWCOEH) Trainee in industrial hygiene at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health. Born in India, Patel studied dentistry as an undergraduate making her a prime candidate to complete a summer internship for clinic safety at the John. S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center at UTHealth Houston.
January 17, 2024
Dr. William "Brett" Perkison, MD, MPH, the Occupational Medicine Residency Program Director for the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (SWCOEH), was part of team which presented a poster at the American Public Health Association Meeting in Atlanta in November.
The Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health is part of the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
